Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Our Little Sister at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film is in Official Competition at the festival and will screen today.
The film was acquired from Wild Bunch, a longtime partner of Sony Pictures Classics. Our Little Sister marks the first collaboration with SPC and Kore-eda.
Written and directed by Kore-eda, Our Little Sister is the story of three sisters – Sachi, Yoshino and Chika – who live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings…
“’Our Little Sister’ is a perfect match for Sony Classics and we’re really grateful that Wild Bunch and Gaga have entrusted us with this special film,” said Sony Pictures Classics.
Japanese writer/director Kore-Era’s previous critically-lauded films include 1998’s After Life and 2013’s Like Father, Like Son, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes that year. Our Little Sister stars Haruka Ayase as Sachi, Masami Nagasawa as Yoshino, Kaho as Chika and Suzu Hirose as Suzu.
