JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Focus: East Asian Films Now

Stonewalling

HUANG Ji, OTSUKA Ryuji

Japan 2022 148min DCP Color Fiction 15Korean Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
149	2023. 04. 28	16:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5	HKE15GV	Ticket Wish
707	2023. 05. 04	11:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 4	HKE15	Ticket Wish
921	2023. 05. 06	13:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 2	HKE15	Ticket Wish

Overview

There is a 20-year-old girl with three faces – a university student without much ambition, a diligent part-time promoter, and a dutiful daughter who offers her baby as compensation for her mother.

Review

Co-directed by Japanese husband OTSUKA Ryuji and Chinese wife HUANG Ji, Stonewalling is a black comedy about the events surrounding a university student’s pregnancy. Lynn dreams of becoming a flight attendant, but while looking for the cause of her sudden chest pain, she finds out she is pregnant. She returns to her hometown to deal with this situation. She decides to help with the debts that her mother has incurred due to her medical malpractice while running an unreliable maternity clinic. The film casts a critical eye on the legacy of the one-child policy remaining in Chinese society, with ova trading and surrogate mothers, and questions about the myth of motherhood itself. It also humorously and slyly points out that pregnancy and childbirth are not financially free in the present-day capitalist society. The two directors’ efforts to leave resonance through a cinematic metaphor, such as Lynn’s chest pain, are remarkable. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT

DirectorHUANG Ji, OTSUKA Ryuji
ProducerOTSUKA Ryuji
ScreenplayOTSUKA Ryuji, HUANG Ji
CinematographyOTSUKA Ryuji

GafferOTSUKA Ryuji
EditorOTSUKA Ryuji
SoundWANG Changui, WANG Xuliang

CastYAO Honggui

FILM SOURCE

YPG-Film LLC ㅣ ryujiotsuka@hotmail.com

DIRECTOR

HUANG Ji

Born in 1984, Hunan, China. She has directed several feature films, including Egg And Stone (2012), Trace (2013), The Foolish Bird (2017), and Stonewalling (2022).

OTSUKA Ryuji

Born in 1972, Tokyo, Japan, Otsuka Ryuji is the cinematographer and producer for all the films directed by Huang Ji.

⚠nationalism🏠family👩woman💘love/dating/romance📢social criticism🕴️comedy/humor/black comedy

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