Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray director Mike Ott's Littlerock (2010), starring Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia, and Rintaro Sawamoto. In 2010, the film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is April 10th.
A road-tripping Japanese brother and sister spend several lost days discovering the less-flattering flipside of California dreaming in this charmingly scruffy tale of misfits, heartbreak and small-town restlessness. Rintaro and Atsuko are visiting the U.S. for the first time. They are headed for San Francisco when their rental car breaks down in the California desert town of Littlerock. Despite the cultural and language barriers—or maybe because of them—they soon fall in with the aimless young locals, including an awkward outcast named Cory clumsily plotting an escape to Los Angeles and clearly taken with Atsuko. She finds fumbling romance with another boy instead, even though the two don't understand a word between them.