11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1993
Tada hito tabi no hito
by Tetsu Kato
Country: Japan
Year: 1993
Duration: 105'
The strange music could be heard from a jazz club in a comer of a big city. Trio called Arafa were giving a hot session. Namihiko was a Shyakuhachi (bamboo flute) player. At that time his mother called him to get back home for his sister's wedding. Namihiko put his Shyakuhachi in his pocket and reluctantly decided to go back to his home town. His sister got married. His mother begged him Io stay together. But Namihiko was not sure what to do. He wanted to play Shyakuhachi once again. He suddenly decided to go back to Tokyo. When he returned to his apartment, the door was locked. The reason for that shut out was that he didn't pay his rent for a few months already. Also his girlfriend has given him up. He had no one to help him. His life became as a life of a wild dog on the street in a big city...
"I want to be released from conventional style of making film. It means that in all steps of making film I want break one by one the shackles. Now I set only one foot on that long journey like my hero of this film. But I don't know I can go how far away from here and what land I go on face to the last. If the last land is nowhere, but I think the important thing is going ahead continuously. I want to make soon next film Singing Bamboo: part Il. I send a song of bamboo from Japan to your heart." (Kato Tetsu)
Biography
film director
Kato Tetsu
Kato Tetsu (Numazu-Shizuoka, 1951) attended Hosei University in Tokyo. He made some 8mm films and then his first 16mm, Mama Don't Cry in 1971. He left the university midway through his studies and joined an agricultural commune. In 1979-90 he worked as assistant director at Mainichi Ega Sha. He then made some 8mm and 16mm films. In 1989 he directed his first feature film, Goodbye. He also wrote an original screenplay for it, which won a prize at the ATG Scenario Festival in Japan.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mama Don't Cry (16mm, 1971), Please Say Me You Love Me (8mm, 1980), Denrey-the Messanger (16mm, 1987), Goodbye (1989), Tada hito tabi no hito (The Singing Bamboo, 1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Kato Tetsu.
Director of photography: Miyatake Yoshiaki.
Editor: Fukuda Chikako.
Music: Mitsuka Yukihiko.
Sound: Tsurumaki Yutaka.
Cast and characters: Omura Namihiko (Namihiko), Hidari Sachiko (la madre), Kida Michio (il nonno), Okunuki Kaoru (la sorella), Katori Yoko (Hatsuko), Itoh Tsuyoshi, Yamamoto Emiko.
Director of Production: Hamada Fumio.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: JJS, Kudanshowa bldg. 4F, 11224 Kudankita, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, tel. +81352750156, fax +81352750156.
Director of photography: Miyatake Yoshiaki.
Editor: Fukuda Chikako.
Music: Mitsuka Yukihiko.
Sound: Tsurumaki Yutaka.
Cast and characters: Omura Namihiko (Namihiko), Hidari Sachiko (la madre), Kida Michio (il nonno), Okunuki Kaoru (la sorella), Katori Yoko (Hatsuko), Itoh Tsuyoshi, Yamamoto Emiko.
Director of Production: Hamada Fumio.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: JJS, Kudanshowa bldg. 4F, 11224 Kudankita, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, tel. +81352750156, fax +81352750156.
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