Lily Festival

Lily Festival (百合祭, Yurisai) is a 2001 Japanese movie directed by Sachi Hamano, based on the novel Yurisai by Houko Momotani. The film focuses on the sexuality of older women and won the Jury Prize for "Best Feature - Lesbian" at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.^[1][2][3]

Lily Festival
Directed by	Sachi Hamano
Written by	Kuninori Yamazaki
Starring	Kazuko Yoshiyuki Mickey Curtis
Cinematography	Katsuji Oyamada
Edited by	Naoki Kaneko
Music by	Shigemi Yoshioka
Distributed by	Tantan-sha Company
Release date	August 26, 2001 (2001-08-26)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast and characters

• Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Rie Miyano
• Mickey Curtis as Terujiro Miyoshi
• Utae Shoji as Umeka Mariko
• Kazuko Shirakawa as Renako Yokota
• Sanae Nakahara as Teruko Satoyama
• Chisako Hara as Atsuko Namiki

See also

• Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women

References

1. "The Cricket Girl (English): About the Director: Sachi Hamano". Tantan-sha Ltd. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
2. Smith, Claiborne (July 28, 2003). "Philadelphia Gay Fest Draws Record Number of Attendees". IndieWire. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
3. Sloan, Jane (2007). "Filmography: Feature Films on the Subject of Women Since 1960". Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films About Women (1st ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-8108-5738-4.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Yurisai at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Lily Festival at IMDb
• Lily Festival at Japanese Film Database
• 百合祭 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
• Yurisai at AllMovie