PRODUCTION NOTES

A man tired of living, and a woman devoted to other’s happiness.
A film asks the meaning of life with brutal force.
The original story by George AKIYAMA. He is one of the most successful comic artists in Japan. He produced many sensational comics creating various greedy characters such as a money monger in Zenigeba, a man eater in Ashura, a lustful man in this Disregarded People (Stegataki Hitobito).
Main character of this film Yusuke Mamiana can’t find the reason to live since he doesn’t have money, job, and attractive looking. The only thing left in him was two desires, one is to fulfill his hunger by eating, and the other is having sex to prove his manliness. By meeting a woman, Kyoko Okabe, he finds both desires comfortably settled down.
How can this impulsive and unplanned man achieve his “Happiness?” And what does it mean to live like a “Human?” Is it guilt to follow our desires? The film is asking us “Happiness” for one person means the same for other person? Can it be compared?
The film depicts the nature of human beings that suffer their lives and struggle to find “love” and “happiness.”

About theDirector: Hideo Sakaki

Born in 1970 in Nagasaki, Japan. He is well-known for his main role in Ryuhei Kitamura’s cult movie 2000’s Versus and 2002’s ALIVE. His debut is in This Window Is Yours in 1995. Also builds up his career as an actor participating such as, in The Choice of Hercules (2002), Azumi (2006), Year One in the North (2005).
SAKAKI is also an excellent movie director. He shot his first short film R’unch Time in 1999 and the film was accepted for a movie festival. He met Ryuhei KITAMURA who won the grand prize at the festival and took a main role of KITAMURA's movie Versus in 2000. While he spent his carrier as an actor, he kept shooting his own films. He even took the part of an assistant director in a few films for experience. And then he moved on to the commercial film. He made his debut as a commercial film director in 2007 by directing GROW. This film is his fifth film and he is preparing his new next project now.

Filmography:
GROW 2007, My Grandmother (僕のおばあちゃん/Boku no Obaa-chan ) 2008, The Accidental Kidnapper (誘拐ラプソディ/Yukai Rhapsody) 2010, Tomato no Shizuku (トマトのしずく) 2011