Roji-E: Nakagami Kenji no Nokoshita Film
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Aoyama Shinji
Izuchi Kishu
Yamamoto Ako
Sato Kimiyoshi
Michio Koshikawa
Tamura Masaki
Film Details
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Synopsis
A fictionalized documentary on Japanese writer Nakagami Kenji, who died young in 1992. Nakagami was the chronicler of the seaside town of Shingu. Many of Nakagami's stories are set in a specific alley in Shingu, an alley that has now gone, but that lives on in the fiction of Nakagami. And also on celluloid, because the writer filmed the alley before its demolition. Filmmaker Izuchi Kisshu goes in search of what is left of Nakagami's alley. The specific mood of the small harbour town, however, turns out to be difficult to find. Kisshu reads the books of Nakagami out loud for us at the locations where they are set, but it is difficult to invoke the magic. Time and again, we return to the film images made by Nakagami, while Kisshu seems to search in vain in the present. The mood of the harbour town is vulnerable and precious yet can disappear just like that.
Director
Aoyama Shinji
Cast
Izuchi Kishu
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Filmmakers of the Present) August 2-12, 2000.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (On the Waterfront) January 24 - February 4, 2001.
35mm
color
