| Leonie | |
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| Directed by | Hisako Matsui |
| Written by | Hisako Matsui |
| Produced by | Patrick Aiello (executive) Ashok Amritraj Manu Gargi Yuuki Itoh |
| Starring | Emily Mortimer Shido Nakamura |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Barbara Tulliver, Craig Hayes, Sabine Hoffman |
| Music by | Jan A.P. Kaczmarek |
Production company | Hyde Park Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Vertigo Films |
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| Country | Japan |
| Languages | English Japanese |
Leonie (Japanese: レオニー, Hepburn: Reonī) is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Hisako Matsui and starring Emily Mortimer and Shido Nakamura. The film is based on the life of Léonie Gilmour, the American lover and editorial assistant of Japanese writer Yone Noguchi and mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour.
Production started in April 2009 and the film was released in Japan on November 20, 2010. An extensively reedited version of the film began a limited theatrical run in the United States on March 22, 2013, and was released on DVD on May 14, 2013.