After Yang
The future has never looked so human.
Plot:When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
Cast & Crew
Colin Farrell
Jodie Turner-Smith
Justin H. Min
Ritchie Coster
Sarita Choudhury
Clifton Collins Jr.
Orlagh Cassidy
Ava DeMary
Lee Wong
Brett Dier
Eve Lindley
Adeline Kerns
Ansley Kerns
Production
Paul S. Mezey
Becky Glupczynski
Caroline Kaplan
Jessica Kelly
Philipp Engelhorn
Andrew Goldman
Directing
Kogonada
Sound
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Marissa Littlefield
Mark DeSimone
Samuel Miille
Ruy GarcĂa
Costume & Make-Up
Arjun Bhasin
Crew
Jeremy Newmark
Art
Alexandra Schaller
Acting
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Fun Facts of Movie
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Memorabilia on the bulletin board in Russ’ repair shop reveals that the story takes place after a six-decades-long war between the US and China.
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Cinematographer Benjamin Loeb and Kogonada had a ritual to eat ramen together throughout the production while discussing life and their approach to After Yang and to cinema in general.
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There’s an additional theme composed expressly for the film by Oscar-winning legend Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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There’s a passage from Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer” that has always stayed with filmmaker Koganada: “The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everyday-ness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.” The filmmaker explains, “I found myself returning to this idea as I was writing and making After Yang, especially as it related to the father, who is struggling to feel connected to this world.”
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Costumes by designer Arjun Bhasin were designed to indicate a shift away from synthetics, toward sustainability and renewable materials. In fact, none of the clothes that were worn by actors had any plastic material.
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Colin Farrell calls Kogonada a “professor” because of his encyclopedic love of movies.
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