Ryuji Otsuka Trailers
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Born in Tokyo, Japan. Came to Beijing in 2005 and finished his first directed narrative film Lingling's Garden. Afterwards, he has maintained his interest in discovering the changes in the Chinese society and personal lives. He is also keen in presenting the characters’ inner activities through images.
As a Director of Photography, he participated in The Judge（Liu Jie, Venezia Orizzonti), The Warmth of Orange Peel (Huang Ji, Berlinale Generation), Egg and Stone (Huang Ji,Tiger Award Rotterdam IFF), When Night Falls (Ying Liang, Locarno Best Director). His films screened in international festivals such as Venice, Berlin, Lacorno and Rotterdam. In 2013, his documentary Trace (Hong Kong IFF, Documentary Competition) portrays a Chinese/Japanese family living under the Senkaku Islands dispute. In 2014, his second documentary Beijing Ants (Hotdocs), was about capitalism in modern China. He is a teacher of Lixianting Film School, participated at Berlinale Talents in 2015. In 2017, he co-directed feature film The Foolish Bird that won the Special Mention of the Generation 14plus international Jury at 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
Most Popular Ryuji Otsuka Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
04 February 2012
14-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. She is not wanted by them, nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city.
18 November 2018
A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan.
29 October 2017
The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory.
22 February 2024
20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude.
30 June 2017
Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation.
19 February 2010
Lin Sen lives with her father in a tiny village in China. This twelve-year-old girl has begun to notice a change in her relationship with her father.
09 December 2020
In the later stages of the epidemic, a young couple who constantly argued over work, a partner who had a conflict, a friend who didn't show up for a long time, their video chats were interwoven and recorded on a computer screen with anxiety, boredom, and hope.
24 March 2010
In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident.
28 April 2012
The mother of a murderer awaits and prepares to meet her son. The true story of a man who killed six Shanghai policemen after suffering police beatings as a punishment for riding an unlicensed bicycle.
01 February 2016
Hong Kong, at the height of the protests. A young woman visits her father, whom she has not seen for a while.
24 January 2020
A young couple grows apart, throwing themselves into the arms of others. She is an independent youngd
02 October 2013
Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji are the ‘main characters' in this very personal homemade documentary that's funny, angry, scary and stirring all at once.
