{"id":147250,"date":"2025-07-29T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/vicky-krieps-film-yakushimas-illusion-set-for-locarno-premiere\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:17:15","slug":"vicky-krieps-film-yakushimas-illusion-set-for-locarno-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/vicky-krieps-film-yakushimas-illusion-set-for-locarno-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Krieps Film &#8216;Yakushima&#8217;s Illusion&#8217; Set for Locarno Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJapanese director <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kawase-naomi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kawase-naomi\" data-tag=\"kawase-naomi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kawase Naomi<\/a>\u2019s drama \u201cYakushima\u2019s Illusion\u201d (\u201cL\u2019Illusion de Yakushima\u201d), starring <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/vicky-krieps\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vicky-krieps\" data-tag=\"vicky-krieps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vicky Krieps<\/a>, will world premiere on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/locarno-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_locarno-film-festival\" data-tag=\"locarno-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locarno Film Festival<\/a> as a late addition to the competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNaomi, who&#8217;s Japan\u2019s best-known feminine movie director, has been holding a comparatively low profile on the worldwide pageant circuit since 2022, when she was accused of bullying her firm employees and assaulting a member of her movie crew. The difficulty was resolved out of court docket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYakushima\u2019s Illusion,\u201d which is Naomi\u2019s first characteristic since her 2020 adoption drama \u201cTrue Mothers,\u201d is the story of Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric coronary heart transplants \u2013 performed by Krieps \u2013 who is shipped to Japan the place organ donation stays taboo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAs she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes. He becomes a \u2018Johatsu,\u2019 as the Japanese call the 80,000 people who disappear overnight each year. Corry faces a double ordeal: saving a child while coping with the loss of the man she loves,\u201d says the offered synopsis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhen I make a movie, I follow an invisible thread \u2014 one woven into the larger tapestry of dreams,\u201d Krieps stated in an announcement. \u201cThis explicit thread led me deep into the traditional forests of Yakushima and again into the mild coronary heart of childhood. I walked the fragile line between ghosts and actuality, drawn by the thriller of affection<em>.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKrieps is predicted to make the trek to advertise the movie in Locarno, the place it is going to launch on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Locarno Film Festival, which is Europe\u2019s indie cinema temple, will run Aug. 6-16.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Japanese director Kawase Naomi\u2019s drama \u201cYakushima\u2019s Illusion\u201d (\u201cL\u2019Illusion de Yakushima\u201d), starring Vicky Krieps, will world premiere on the upcoming Locarno Film Festival as a late addition to the competitors. Naomi, who&#8217;s Japan\u2019s best-known feminine movie director, has been holding a comparatively low profile on the worldwide pageant circuit since 2022, when she was accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[263,12544,6719,10596,139,245,6718,12543],"class_list":{"0":"post-147250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-film","9":"tag-illusion","10":"tag-krieps","11":"tag-locarno","12":"tag-premiere","13":"tag-set","14":"tag-vicky","15":"tag-yakushimas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}