37 Seconds

37 Seconds is a 2019 Japanese drama film directed by Hikari. The film features amateur actress Mei Kayama, who has cerebral palsy, as 23-year-old Yuma Takada, a talented artist who wants to make her name in manga. A sympathetic magazine editor (Yuka Itaya) tells Takada her art is technically proficient but betrays her lack of worldly experience. Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, the editor tells the young, wheelchair-bound woman to lose her virginity and then return.

The film was screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Audience Award and the International Confederation of Art Cinemas’ Art Cinema Award in the festival's Panorama section.

Cast

 * Mei Kayama
 * Misuzu Kanno
 * Shunsuke Daitō
 * Makiko Watanabe
 * Yuka Itaya