YEAR: 2015
LANGUAGE: Japanese
SYNOPSIS: A mathematician who bets his life on solving a proof that could change the world. His good friend, a philosopher who faces retribution for commiting a dire sin. A priest who seeks to save this prisoner’s soul. Finally, a painter, the girlfriend of the genius mathematician. Each interlaces with one another and illustrates human existence.
PROFILE: Born and raised in the Japanese countryside, he entered Waseda University in 2012. He has been abroad studying cinema for one year at the University of California Irvine.