Overview
Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.
Cast
Rei Hirano
Reiko
Ryo Sato
Ryouhei / Mamoru Noguchi
Mikio Tayama
Kunio Miki
Ayako Ito
Ito Bun / Kayoko Kanamori
Akihisa Sugai
Akira Nishijima / Noboru Komiyama
Takuma Watanabe
Hidenori Watanabe / Clerk 2
Kanako Tezuka
Urara Tezuka / Yukie Noguchi
Toru Arai
Taro Nakamura / Shinnosuke Tada
Aki Katori
Akiko Katori / Etsuko Shiomi
Rinpuku Tsuchiya
Kensuke Hayashi / Clerk 1
Ryo Sato
Ryohei
The Depths
Base 9
Reruns
The Mine
Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art
Judas Collar
Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi
Foresight Killer Instinct
Adam and Eve
Blériot, l'impossible traversée
Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara
Dark Streets of Cairo
Yellow Box
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Between the Shadows
When Love Blossoms