Special Guests: Peter Tatara, Alexander Fee, Elizabeth LennardMike talks with Peter Tatara and Alexander Fee, programmers from the Japan Cuts Film Festival which runs July 26 - August 6, 2023.
On another episode, Mike talks with filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard about her film Tokyo Melody, a documentary about musician Ryuichi Sakamoto which plays at the Japan Cuts festival.
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Music:
"Back in Tokyo" - Yellow Magic Orchestra
"Cosmic Surfin'" - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Watch:
TOKYO MELODY: A FILM ABOUT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (Elizabeth Lennard, 1985) from Spectacle on Vimeo.
some original & interesting trivia, i hope.
ReplyDeleteincidentally, "Tokyo Melody ..."
contains a blue tinted sequence of a block of flats
( mark 13'30" - 14'09" )
- inside with a warnining sign 'no safety net above',
a pan of the complex
& a shot of a playing grounds w/ children -
that depicts the very place that
comic's "Domu - a child's dream" (1981, by OTOMO katsuhiro)
action of takes place.