I Want to Go Home (2017 film)

I Want to Go Home is a 2017 documentary film by filmmaker Wesley Leon Aroozoo. It made its world premiere at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival, competing for the Mecenat Award in the Wide Angle Documentary Competition, and its international premiere at the 28th Singapore International Film Festival in 2017. The documentary follows the story of Yasuo Takamatsu, a 58-year-old Japanese man whose wife was lost in the 2011 tsunami and has been diving every week around the small coastal town of Onagawa in search of her.[1][2]

I Want to Go Home
Directed byWesley Leon Aroozoo
Produced byHo Shengjuan
Wesley Leon Aroozoo
Release date
  • October 2017 (2017-10) (BIFF)
  • December 2, 2017 (2017-12-02) (SGIFF)
Running time
60 minutes
CountrySingapore, Japan
LanguageJapanese

The documentary is distributed by IMPLEO Inc (Worldwide Rights) and Golden Tree (Mainland China Rights).

Aroozoo also wrote a novel, of the same name, based on Takamatsu's life and his own journey to meet the Japanese man. The first print in 2017 and second print in 2018 is published by Math Paper Press. It is available at Books Kinokuniya Tokyo, Neo Kinokuniya Singapore and Bookactually.

In 2021, I Want to Go Home was transformed into an interactive art installation by Mural Lingo for Open Books at the Arts House as part of the Light to Nights Festival in Singapore.

References
  1. Wong, Casandra (16 September 2017). "Lasalle teacher gets his 'biggest break' at Busan Film Fest 2017". Today. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  2. "I Want To Go Home". SGIFF. 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
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