Year: 2004
Duration: 15'
A traveler passes by a group of wild people resting in the field. Then comes a
drought and the people are led by the traveler to the city. There lived the city
people. They could not be mixed. But after series of conflicts, they slowly
learned to live together. At last, the traveler sets off again and a couple
follows him in search for a new land.
"I gathered my friends and filmed it myself with a camera for two days. The
camera was an ordinary small video camera for home use.
It has been since the days of university to film in such way. In those days,
films were just meant to be shot and were not meant to be properly directed or
to be told a complete story. The only important thing was to start shooting and
finish shooting, and not what we were making. It has been 25 years since then.
It gave me a chance to recognize what I have gained and lost in the past 25
years. In that sense, this film was made to look back my own film career."
(Kurosawa Kyoshi).
Biography
film director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Kobe, Japan, 1955) studied at Rikkyo Daigaku and then worked as assistant, director of short films in 8mm, and early productions for the video market. In 1997 his metaphysical thriller Cure gave him his first success at the Tokyo International Film Festival. His later works, most of which have participated at the world’s top festivals, have made him one of the new authors of Japanese cinema. His short film Soul Dancing was presented in 2004 at the Torino Film Festival, where he returned the following year with Loft. In 2008, Tokyo Sonata, starring Koji Yakusho, won the Jury Prize in Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival, a section he returned to in 2015 with Journey to the Shore, which won Best Director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Suito Homu (Sweet Home, 1989), Katte ni shiyagare! Gyakuten keikaku (1996), Hebi no michi (Serpent’s Path, 1997), Ningen gokaku (License to Live, 1998), Kumo no hitomi (Eyes of the Spider, 1998), Karisuma (Charisma, 1999), Oinaru genei (Barren Illusions, 1999), Kaïro (Pulse, 2001), Akarui mirai (Bright Future, 2003), Dopperugenga (Doppelganger, 2003), Ghost Cop (2004), Shi no otome (Loft, 2005), Sakebi (Castigo, 2006), Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (Real, 2012), Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, 2013), Kurip (Creepy, 2016).