SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY: Sho Miyake’s Acclaimed Boxing Drama Lands Late June UK Release
Sho Miyake’s latest boxing drama, Small, Slow But Steady, is enjoying a few quiet theatrical runs nowadays since opening in Japan back in December. The film won awards last year at Berlin, Busan, Karlovy Vary and in London, and I didn’t even know the IFC Center screened it earlier this year as part of its ACA Cinema Project film series.
As it stands now, UK label Blue Finch Films is signaling moviegoers to check out Small, Slow But Steady later this month. The film is based on boxer Keiko Ogasawara’s 2011 autobiographical memoir, “Makenaide!,” and centers on a hearing-impaired woman met with the biggest challenge of her life as her dreams of becoming a boxer are met with the threatened closure of her boxing club, along with the illness of its aging president, who has been her biggest supporter.
Yukino Kishii leads the cast which also includes Tomokazu Miura, and Shinichiro Matsuura who also trained Kishii for the part. The film will open in UK cinemas and on Curzon Cinema from June 30.
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