Kaleidoscope (1999)
Douban
万花筒
/
万華鏡
director:
Naomi Kawase
playwright:
Naomi Kawase
actor:
Machiko Ono
/
三船美佳
/
Arimoto Shinya
genre:
Documentary
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 30m
release date: 1999
IMDb: tt2224323
万華鏡
overview
Documentary film. Starring Ono Machiko (then high school girl in Nishi Yoshino village scouted by Kawase herself for Suzaku) and Mifune Mika (daughter of Mifune Toshiro), Kawase filmed the shooting location for the photograph collection of these two actresses photographed by Arimoto Shinya, the Taiyo Award-winning young photographer and also Kawase's friend.
The conflicted feelings, between the country girl and urban girl and between the film-director and photographer, mirror the significance of life.