Cinema Fighters
Our Birthday
A successful young CEO, Kanata Tokura, launches his own company with his roommate from when he studied in the USA. By fate, he meets a pastry chef Rika who has the same birthday as him, and they become enamored with each other. When they later get engaged on their birthday, Rika suddenly disappears. Since losing the love of his life, he has closed his heart off to the world. On his birthday the following year, he declines every invitation and goes back home to see a vision of Rika in a candlelit room. They promised each other eternal love though…
Director : Yuki Saito
Yuki Saito graduated from Columbia College Hollywood. After coming back to Japan in 2006, he worked with Japanese and international film maestros such as Alejandro González Iñárritu of "Babel". He won the Audience Award four times at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia and in 2014, he received his third consecutive win at Cannes Lions. While working as a director for the TV series "Hiru no Sentozake" and "Kokaku Fudo Senki Robosan", he also made his feature film debut "Koto", which is based on a novel by Yasunari Kawabata.