Rukku Bakku

2024 wurde aus dem gleichnamigen Erfolgsmanga ein Anime. Nun holt Koreeda den Stoff mit einer Realverfilmung in die Wirklichkeit. RUKKU BAKKU kreist um zwei grundverschiedene Schülerinnen: die eine selbstbewusst und furchtlos in der Welt, die andere introvertiert und ängstlich in ihrem Zimmer. Über ihre Liebe zum Manga finden die beiden zusammen und beginnen, gemeinsam zu zeichnen. Koreeda gelingt dabei eine Hommage an diese japanische Kunstform. Mit typischer Feinfühligkeit erzählt er in seiner entzückenden Coming-of-Age-Story in erster Linie aber von innigster Freundschaft und Rivalität, von schmerzvollem Verlust und einer Flucht ins Was-wäre-wenn ... (Sascha Rettig)

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A pencil line connects two lives in Koreeda Hirokazu’s RUKKU BAKKU, a delicate film about the ways friendship can redraw us. Adapted from Fujimoto Tatsuki’s manga, it follows Fujino and Kyomoto, two gifted schoolgirls whose rivalry over their respective drawing abilities eventually dissolves into an extraordinary creative bond. One is outgoing, competitive, hungry for recognition; the other isolated, introverted and endowed with a remarkable precision of vision. Yet these differences also give rise to their intimacy. Stories, figures and backgrounds pass between them until drawing together becomes a form of osmosis. Koreeda renders their connection with an exquisitely poetic delicacy. The fine detail of the drawings, the scratch of graphite, the quiet choreography of hands at work and the shifting seasons unfold beneath a soft, weightless light. His images have an ethereal quality, but never float free of the material world: paper, pencils, landscapes and sounds anchor their shared universe. Then the narrative gathers unexpected force, and the idyll is ruptured by loss, separation and the haunting possibility of lives that might have taken another course. To look back is to redraw the invisible lines connecting one life to another. (Maria Giovanna Vagenas)

Koreeda Hirokazu: AFTER LIFE (1998), DISTANCE (2001), NOBODY KNOWS (2004), HANA (2006), STILL WALKING (2008), AIR DOLL (2009), I WISH (2011), LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (2013), OUR LITTLE SISTER (2015), AFTER THE STORM (2016), THE THIRD MURDER (2017), SHOPLIFTERS (2018), THE TRUTH (2019), BROKER (2022), MONSTER (2023), SHEEP IN THE BOX (2026)