Sketches of Kaitan City

Sketches of Kaitan City (海炭市叙景) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and starring Mitsuki Tanimura and Ryo Kase.

Cast

 * Mitsuki Tanimura as Honami Ikawa
 * Pistol Takehara as Futa Ikawa
 * Ryo Kase as Haruo Meguro
 * Masaki Miura as Hiroshi Hagiya
 * Takashi Yamanaka as Makoto Kudou
 * Kaoru Kobayashi as Ryuzo Hika
 * Kaho Minami as Haruyo Hika

Release
The film had its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. It was released in Japan on 18 December 2010.

Reception
Dustin Chang of Twitch Film felt that the film "resembles strongly of the neo-neo realism of the Dardenne brothers' films but without their sense of hope". Meanwhile, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter noted Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "low key but tender depictions of working class people and subtle assimilation of socio-economical realities, redolent of the works of Jia Zhangke and Wang Bing's West of the Tracks".