The Yoshida-ryo Dormitory (YIDFF Version)
(Taiwa no yukue: Kyoto daigaku Yoshida ryo)- JAPAN / 2025 / Japanese / Color / DCP / 107 min
Director, Photography: Fujikawa Keizo
Editing: Imai Toshihiro
Art Direction: Ueda Tomomichi
Sound Mixing: Hwang Young-chang
Music: Yamamoto Seiichi
Producer: Fujita Koichi
Japan’s oldest student dormitory, bearing the memory of a century of student autonomy. As the university pushes for eviction on the grounds that the building is deteriorating, the residents strive to protect a way of life built around dialogue. The film quietly appeals to the value of shared spaces—where people come together, face one another, and speak openly—something increasingly lost in today’s society.
Fujikawa KeizoBorn in Kagawa in 1968, Fujikawa began working in feature films and television after graduating from university. He has directed Still Life (2001), Saoya no Tsuki (2005), Finding Refuge in Ishinomaki (2012), and Kaze ni tatsu Aiko san (2025), and served as producer for Zeze Takahisa’s The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018).