23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Yuda

Secret Journey

Year: 2004

Duration: 113'

A documentary video maker sees a guy named Yuda in the middle of Tokyo and he begins following him around. One day Yuda disappeares with his videocamera. A couple of months later, a lady name Michi Nakamura comes to the video maker's office and says that Yuda was dead. Right after she leaves his office, she is hit by a car. The video maker visits her in hospital and she begins to tell him about the mysterious story of her and Yuda.

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Takahisa Zeze

Takahisa Zeze (Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, 1960) studies literature at the Tokyo University and during this period he realizes his first works in Super8 and 16mm. In 1985 he enters in Shishi, an erotic movies, (the so-called pink movie,) production company. In the following years he continues working in the Pinku eiga field, sometimes under pseudonym but directs main stream hits too, gaining an international critical consense.

FILMOGRAFIA

Kagai jugyo: boko (1989), Good Luck Japan (1989), Aozora (Blue Sky, 1989), Showa guntoden 2: Tsuki no sabaku (1990), Kokonattsu kurasshu (Coconut Clash, 1990), Nomanzu rando (1991), Watakushi no kisha wa kita e hashitte iru hazu na no ni koko de wa minami ni kakete iru (1992), Kindan no sono: the seifuku les (1992), Gendai guntouden (1993), Bousan ga he koita (A Fart of Monk, 1993), Karura no yume (The Dream of Garuda, 1994), Honban les: hazukashii taii (1994), Sukebe tenkomori (1995), Owaranai sex (1995), Akai joji (1996), Raigyo (1997), Kokkuri-san (Kokkuri, 1997), Anaakii in jyapansuke: rensa yûkai (1999), Hysteric (2000), Tokyo X Erotica (2001), Rush! (2001), Dog Star (2002), Moon Child (2003), Yuda (Yuda, the Secret Journey, 2004), Hada no sukima (2004), Mrs. (2005).