Documentary · France · 1995 · 50m

Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

夢のシネマ東京の夢

Director

Cast

Yoshishige Yoshida as Narrator (voice) Akira Takahashi as Himself Kiriko Shimizu as Herself

Crew

Kazutami Hara — Director of Photography Ned Burgess — Director of Photography Yoshishige Yoshida — Editor Yoshishige Yoshida — Writer

Synopsis

A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after its inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

Key Collaborators

Yoshishige Yoshida Director Kazutami Hara Director of Photography Ned Burgess Director of Photography Yoshishige Yoshida Editor Yoshishige Yoshida Writer

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