Filled with Steam 湯気満ちて Dir: Rina Tanaka (2017) Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018

Filled with Steam

湯気満ちて 「Yuge michite 」

Running Time: 30 mins.

Release Date: 2017

Director: Rina Tanaka

Writer: Ryota Kato (Screenplay),

Starring: Ayako Mizuno, Takehito Sato, Yoko Kakegawa, Shigeru Harihara, Hisato Hayashi, Kaori Takeda,

And oh, after the love has gone

How could you lead me on

And not let me stay around?

Oh, after the love has gone

What used to be right is wrong

Can love that’s lost be found?

AFTER THE LOVE IS GONE / Earth,Wind & Fire

Filled with Steam is one of the latest works by Rina Tanaka, an up-and-coming filmmaker with a Masters from Tokyo University of the Arts, Film & New Media’s Directing course who already has a feature film to her name and is developing a distinct style. With this short, audiences at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018 got to taste her sensibility, which favours creating ambiguity through the use of clashing tones. Here we see quite a clash. Filled with Steam is a tale of love on life-support featuring a visceral undercurrent of tragedy masked by comedic elements that culminates in a powerful ending.