Tsuboi and Kinoshita have just arrived at a desolate town. Both of them are amateur filmmakers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Machiko Ono
The Mourning Forest (2007) Naomi Kawase, Yôichirô Saitô, Kanako Masuda, Machiko Ono
A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country Read More »
The God Suzaku (1997) Naomi Kawase, Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Read More »
Mangekyô / Kaleidoscope (1999) Naomi Kawase, Shinya Arimoto, Mika Mifune, Machiko Ono, Documentary
Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.
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