Date: Thursday, May 29 – Tuesday, June 10, 2025, ONLINE: Thursday, April 24 – Sunday, June 30, 2025

Japan Program

Competition 19

The Bride Who Rides A Sleigh

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • line

Online

In Northern Japan's rural farming villages in the 1950s, there was a custom where a bride was carried in a horse-drawn sleigh to get married at the end of winter. Ten years after the war's end, it depicts how rural societies gradually liberated themselves from their strict conventions.

Director
Yoshiro Osaka
Time
0:25:00
Country
Japan
Genre
Drama
Year
2024

Awards Nominations

2024 The 6th Hainan Island International Film Festival (China)
2024 Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan)
2024 The 41st Tehran Internationa Short Film Festival (Iran)
2024 The 19th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (Japan)
2024 Yamagata International Movie Festival (Japan)
2024 New York Japan CineFest (USA)
2025 Moscow International Film Festival

Director

Yoshiro Osaka

OSAKA Yoshiro was born in Hokkaido and moved to the US at 18 to study filmmaking at the City University of New York. His short A Little Circus (2021) was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

  • instagram
  • instagram

Screening

Screening Venue

VenueScheduleTicket Reservation
WITH HARAJUKU HALL2025.6.7 [Sat] 19:30-21:20

Online Screening

OnlinescheduleOnline Screening
Online Grand Theater2025.06.12 [Thu]- 06.30 [Mon]

Recommended

Sponsors

KODANSHA Ltd.

NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

CyberAgent, Inc.

Milbon Co., Ltd.

Hoppy Beverage co.

Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.

NIPPON STEEL KOWA REAL ESTATE CO.,LTD.

CRG Co.,Ltd.

The JIKEI COM Group of Colleges

Festival Partner

Little Universe OKINAWA produced by Aim Universe

Event Partner

TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY

Creative Partner

TYO Inc.

Japan Cultural Expo 2.0

Media Partners

J-WAVE, Inc.

CONDÉ NAST JAPAN

TOKYO HEADLINE

Media Supporters

cinemacafe.net

Kinema Junposha., Ltd

ORICON NEWS

English Media Supporter

Kyodo News Plus

Festival Supporters

MORI Building

War and the Power To Live Program Special Support

International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC)

Venue Supporter

NTT Urban Development Corporation

Tokyo Tokyo Festival