About the Pink Sky

Izumi is a high school student. She has an unusual habit. Every day she reads the newspaper and gives the articles marks. One day she finds a wallet in the street. Inside it are a student card and three hundred thousand yen. She does not hand the wallet back at once. She lends part of the money away. She wants to help somebody she knows who is in difficulty. Her friends Hasumi and Kaoru find out. They press her into taking the wallet to its owner. But not all of the money is there. In exchange the girls take on a task. They will put together a newspaper for a friend of his who is in hospital. That newspaper will carry good news only. The film was shot in black and white. It was the first feature its director made. It took a prize at the Tokyo film festival in 2011. Ai Ikeda and Ena Koshino appear in the hundred and thirteen minute film, a Japanese production Keiichi Kobayashi finished in 2011.