Its Japanese cinematographer, Hideho Urata, is currently a senior lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts and has also worked on the award-winning Singapore film A Land Imagined.
The film, which also involves producers from Japan, France, the Philippines and Indonesia, is set to be released in Japan on Jun 20. A Singapore release date has yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, A Useful Ghost is directed by Thailand’s Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and co-produced by Singapore-based Momo Film Co, along with French and Thai counterparts.
It’s about a wife who dies due to dust pollution and unexpectedly returns in the form of a vacuum cleaner unravelling an unconventional human-ghost love story. The Singapore release date for the film will be announced later.
Singaporeans involved in the film include sound designer Lim Ting Li and product designer, Sim Hao Jie.
