First Stills From Jason Gray's YUKUHARU

For those who have followed Japanese film for any length of time Jason Gray's name is a familiar one. Gray has long covered the Japanese industry for the trade papers in addition to work translating subtitles for Japanese film and writing about the state of things for his personal blog. Gray has even chipped in the occasional article here at ScreenAnarchy. And now, after years spent writing about films made in Japan, he's gone out and made one.

Titled Yukuharu, the picture is a short directed, written and edited by Gray with Paul Leeming working as DP. The one line synopsis is straight to the point: A 10-year-old girl is faced with the prospect of her first kiss when tragedy strikes...

Gray has been good enough to pass us a selection of the first images from the film which you can find in the gallery below.