KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ART FESTIVAL 2020

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This is a work of Nobuhiko Obayashi when he was around 30 years old. This semi-documentary from the perspective of a young designer visiting Japan from Northern Europe tells the story of the filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi and his friends who the young designer encounters in Japan. The strong will, dreams and hopes of director Obayashi and his friends based on the idea of "We make our own times!" seem to surge out of the film and capture the atmosphere of the times. In recent years, Obayashi's style has been described as "shooting a documentary and creating a narrative film," and it's clear that the prototype for this style was perfected half a century ago. This film shows that the director's philosophy of filmmaking has never wavered from his experimental film days to "Labyrinth of Cinema".

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