Part of the 2025 season: Am I Right?
We Make Antiques!
Uso happyaku, 嘘八百
Director TAKE Masaharu
Cast NAKAI Kiichi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, Tomochika, MORIKAWA Aoi
2018, 105 min, English subtitles
Norio (NAKAI Kiichi) is an experienced antiques dealer, but none of his experience prepares him for the veritable treasure he finds one day while searching a rich family’s storehouse: a very precious teacup made for the use of Sen no Rikyu, Japan’s most revered tea master. The homeowner, Sasuke (SASAKI Kuranosuke), seems oblivious to its true value, so Norio successfully talks Sasuke into giving it up for next to nothing.
What Norio fails to realise is that Sasuke is not the actual homeowner; rather, he is a talented but impoverished potter who made the fake teacup Norio now possesses. Before long, Norio realises that by combining Sasuke’s artistic prowess with his dealership, the two could make a fortune, and so they decide to make a gamble of historic proportions against an authenticator by whom they have both been wronged with career-changing consequences. Against all odds, can Norio and Sasuke succeed in deceiving the connoisseurs?
A breakout hit for director TAKE Masaharu that kickstarted a beloved series, We Make Antiques! shines a laugh-a-minute light on the shady side of antiques trading, full of trivia on Sen no Rikyu and traditional Japanese pottery.
©2018 “We Make Antiques!” Film Partners
Screening dates
Below you will find screening details at various cinemas nationwide.
- Phoenix, Leicester Friday 7 February
- Chichester Cinema Saturday 8 February, 16:45
- Showroom Cinema Tuesday 11 February
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Wednesday 12 February, 18:20
- Chapter Friday 14 February, 20:30
- Riverside Studios Friday 21 February, 18:00
- Exeter Phoenix Wednesday 5 March
- Cameo Thursday 6 March
- QUAD Friday 14 March, 18:15
- Eden Court Monday 17 March
- Brewery Arts Cinema Saturday 22 March, 17:00
All films in this season
- All the Long Nights
- Qualia
- A Samurai in Time
- To Mom, With Love
- Hope
- Sakura
- Tea Friends
- The Inugami Family
- 99% Cloudy… Always
- Day and Night
- Let's Go Karaoke!
- Ichiko
- Stay Mum
- Bushido
- What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?
- The Scoop
- Penalty Loop
- Ghost Cat Anzu
- We Make Antiques!
- Carmen Comes Home
- A Girl Named Ann
- In the Wake
- (Ab)normal Desire
- The Moon
- Rude to Love
- Broken Commandment