A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?
The story is set in a gold-mining town on Sado Island, Japan. A woman wakes up with no memory of her past. She is rescued by an elderly female cleaner named Kii (which means the colour yellow). Kii takes her to a home that already houses two girls—Aka (red) and Kuro (black). Unable to remember her name, the woman is given the name Midori (green). Midori and Kii start working together as cleaners at the gold mine. There, Midori meets a man who works as the night guard. He says he has no name nor memory of his past. Midori names him Ao (blue). The two people who have no memory of their respective pasts become attracted to each other. The world they inhabit feels somewhat different from the normal world. Eventually, the true identity of Midori and the people in her life are unveiled. This film tells a story of life and death, dreams and reality, existence and its ambiguities. The lead characters are played by Japanese movie stars Komatsu Nana and Matsuda Ryuhei.
Tomina Tetsuya was born in Hokkaido, Japan. His short At the Last Stop Called Ghost Chimney (2013) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. In 2018, his first feature film Blue Wind Blows (2018) was competed in the Generation section of Berlin International Film Festival and was selected in the Berlinale Goes Kiez programme. His second feature project Who Were We? was selected by Biennale College Cinema, Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum 2018 and Tokyo Gap-Financing Market 2022. The film is currently in post-production.
Hatanaka Mina started her career as a building designer at Kume Sekkei, a major architectural design firm in Japan. Later, she shifted to a variety of jobs: the planner and the publicist of legendary wrestling organisation UWF International; production manager for the closing ceremony performance of the 1998 Nagano Paralympics; and the agent of Japanese actor Matsuda Ryuhei, who debuted as the lead in Oshima Nagisa’s Taboo (1999). In 2013, she started TETSUYA to MINA film with director Tomina Tetsuya.