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Gen Kinokura, a dedicated solo camper, enjoys peaceful mountain trips. His quiet life is disrupted when beginner camper Shizuku Kusano unexpectedly joins him, forcing them to navigate the challenges of camping together.
A nostalgic work, which attempts to reconstruct the materials of postwar 35 mm newsreel footage given by the filmmakers’ friend and old tinted picture postcards. He frankly describes in his own coherent style of filmmaking how he was moved when he saw these films and photographs for the first time. An attempt to rediscover fresh and new images in the past products.
A compilation of Kawanaka's representative "Shishōsetsu" series. "The title of my film series, 'I-novel,' is easily misunderstood. The 'I-novel' is a traditional Japanese literary form in which the filmmaker depicts his or her life as if poking around in a box. That's why I didn't shoot it like a regular documentary film. I'm filming everyday life, but it's fictionalized into a scene I've never seen before." -Nobuhiro Kawanaka
Cessna consists of a series of short takes, alternating the visual pace through the movements of subjects and camera, which reveals Nakajima's studio space and later the process of making the film.
An Ishiro Honda film.
