FAREWELL, SUMMER BRIGHTNESS (1968 - Color - 92 min)
Just before embarking on an academic career, Kawamura spends his last vacation in Europe. In Lisbon, he meets Naoko, an importer of furniture and art objects. Kawamura is obsessed with a sketch he saw in Nagasaki several years before. He has in fact come all the way to Europe to see with his own eyes the cathedral that this sketch depicted. Naoko, for her part, lost her parents in the bombing of Nagasaki, and has since led a stateless life, having voluntarily forgotten everything about Japan…
"This road movie was filmed in seven European countries. An architect searching for the model of a vanished cathedral and a woman who left Japan to live abroad meet and travel together. When the chimerical dreams of this man and the secret past of this woman collide, the name of a forgotten land appears to them: Nagasaki."
Kiju Yoshida
WOMEN IN THE MIRROR (2002 - Color - 124 min)
Ai Kawase lives in the suburbs of Tokyo. She is the widow of a doctor, Shinji. Her daughter Miwa ran away at the age of twenty. She reappeared four years later, to give birth to a daughter, Natsuki, before disappearing again. One day, Ai receives a call from the city hall, to inform her that a woman has just been found in possession of Miwa's family record book...
"Three women from different generations question their identity in relation to the atomic bombing. The fact that none of them can provide an answer demonstrates the very absurdity of the bomb. A film can talk about it: all that will remain is an enigma, impossible to completely understand, because the bomb opens up an endless discussion."
Kiju Yoshida
DVD edition only
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PREFACES BY KIJÛ YOSHIDA
TRAILERS
Released on April 9, 2008
