Company: Lisa Cannon Productions
Country: CANADA
Section: MOVIES
Discipline: Hockey
Year: 2007
Director: Naoko Kumagai
Editing: Ryan Neill
Photography: John M. Tran
Soundtrack: Andrew Barker
Actors: Hiromi Okuyama, Jovanni Sy
Producer: Lisa Cannon
CoProducer: Naoko Kumagai
Time: 13 min
Projection: Sunday 8 December – 4:40 pm – Sala Colonne
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Synopsis
Vancouver, 1975. Yuko, a 25-years-old Japanese immigrant woman, is trapped in an empty, stilted marriage: she can’t speak the language well and she lives much of her own life in isolation. Her stagnant life is shaken up when she encounters a group of boys playing street hockey. They present her with the hockey card of her soon to be talisman – a card of the Montreal Canadiens’ star winger, Guy Lafleur. Yuko learns of a contest at a local store where the winner gets to meet the hockey star. She befriends Gord, the store manager, who coincidentally worships Lafleur. Determined to win the contest, Yuko gets a job at the store and begins a journey to find her way to Lafleur and, ultimately, herself.