Wild Honey Films

Kentaro Suyama & Sandy Foster

Writer/Director: Jon Gilbert; Director of Photography: Christopher Ross; Producer: Matt Grimwood
Music: Nick Jew; Editor: Zoe Montagu-Smith; Production Designer: Katherine Law; Costumes: Raquel Azevedo; Hair & Make-Up: Florence Carter

Awkward loser Toshi is a socially-inept young Japanese businessman who finds himself in London with a group of bullying older colleagues who ignore and exclude him at every turn. Stranded in a lonely hotel when his colleagues sneak off to enjoy the city’s night-life. Toshi’s evening goes from bad to worse when he discovers that no sooner had his plane left the tarmac of Tokyo International than his wife had jumped into the arms of another man.

As he stands on the brink of ending it all, Toshi is jolted out of his despair when a bang at his hotel room door introduces him to a collapsed drunken bride-to-be, attempting to return from her hen night. Forced to look after the brash bride, Toshi learns some surprising things about his current state of affairs that make him re-evaluate his imploding world and see things from a fresh perspective…

Produced by Matt Grimwood in conjunction with executive producers Pulse Films, Toshi was shot in November 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Docklands. Post-production was done at Pogo Films, with the sound edited and mixed at Pinewood and Shepperton Studios.