Off-Balance Explained

Off-Balance
Director:	Shin Togashi
Screenplay:	Shiori Kazama
Story:	Naoko Uozumi (novel)
Starring:	Megumi Hatachiya Fumiyo Kohinata Yu Hatano
Music:	Masahiro Kawasaki
Distributor:	JVC Media Box
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Shin Togashi based on the novel Hi-baransu by Naoko Uozumi which won the author the Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature.^[1] ^[2]

Cast

Megumi Hatachiya as Chiaki
Fumiyo Kohinata as Kiku-chan
Yu Hatano as Mizue
Momoka Nakamura as Yukari
Shūji Kashiwabara as Heath
Tomato as Yuri-chan
Kumiko Tsuchiya as Homeroom Teacher
Ryūshi Mizukami as Video Store Clerk
Masayo Umezawa as Mizue's Mother
Noriko Hayami as Masayoshi's Wife
Mieko Harada as Chiaki's Mother

Awards

23rd Yokohama Film Festival^[3] ^[4]

Won: Best New Director - Shin Togashi
10th Best Film

Notes and References

Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=162831. ja:非・バランス. Off-Balance. AllCinema. 2013-10-11. Japanese.
Web site: Booksfromjapan.jp . Naoko Uozumi. ja: 魚住直子. JLit. 2013-10-11. Japanese .
Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/23-2001/23-2001_shou.html. ja:第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画個人賞. 23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Individual Award. 2011-01-06. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063619/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/23-2001/23-2001_shou.html. 2012-09-28. dead.
Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/23-2001/23-2001_best10.html. ja:第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画ベスト 10. 23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Best 10. 2011-01-06. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210340/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/23-2001/23-2001_best10.html. 2016-03-03. dead.