Opening on May 9, Last Shadow At First Light stars Japanese actress Mihaya Shirata as the bicultural protagonist.
Singaporean film director Nicole Midori Woodford's Last Shadow At First Light is inspired by family stories she heard when she was growing up
Haunted by visions of entities from other worlds, the youngster travels to Japan to solve the mystery of her missing Japanese mother . Arriving in Tokyo, she is met by her taxi driver uncle , who appears reluctant to help her discover the truth about her mum. “Interviewing and auditioning girls from the Japanese expat community in Singapore, I found that some do not have that shared experience – they would need to know what it is like to be in two worlds, to belong to both but also to neither,” she says.
Shirata, now 20, was born in Japan and partly raised in Hawaii. She is fluent in Japanese and English, and so could communicate with the multinational crew and with Woodford, who says she is not fluent in Japanese. She is a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media and teaches subjects such as scriptwriting, film production and editing. She belongs to the school’s pioneer batch, graduating in 2009 and has taught there since 2018.Woodford thought that she would be able to shoot in Japan in 2020, but the pandemic shut down those plans.
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