Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi has been turning heads around here at Twitch right from day one. His debut film Kichiku marked him as a talent to watch, a status borne out by his next few films before he arrived at his most acclaimed effort so far, Green Minds, Metal Bats. And then Kazuyoshi kind of hit a pothole on his road to success with the high profile Freesia, a film that did - shall we say - underwhelming business. So Kazuyoshi is now doing the sensible thing: he's getting back to his low budget roots with Non-Ko.

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”

There’s no place to run to and no place to belong, just a backwards little country town. The only thing to do is ride her bicycle to her friend’s bar to drink with the owner, another divorcee. She can’t remember the last time she got dressed up or had sex ...

The film had its debut at the Tokyo Filmex last week and you can find the trailer below the break.