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KATHPUTALI: The Angel of the Himalayas (2016)
Directed by Ito Toshiaki
“Puppet”
Drama, Mystery · 51m
Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and screenplay writer for a Nepalese film in this mid-length feature film. Screened in Kathmandu and recipient of the National Film Award from the Nepal government and the Nepal Short Film Critic's Award. A couple visits a mountain village in Nepal to put on a puppet theater performance. A young boy named Ramesh is brought to the festival being held in the village by his grandma Maya. There, he meets a girl named Nisha who wears the same ethnic attire as his grandmother.
Cast
Mithila Sharma
Crew
- Director
- Ito Toshiaki
- Screenplay
- Toshiaki Ito
- Producer
- Ito Toshiaki
Details
- Original title
- Kathputali Kaze no mura no densetsu
- Release date
- 2016-04-23
- Runtime
- 51m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery
- Original language
- NE
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese, Nepali
- Countries
- Japan, Nepal
- Production
- Film creation Nepal