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My Father, Burned

The film was born from discovering a Super 8 film shot by her deceased father during her childhood, and unfurls through a personal archive of images and reminiscences that patch together the life of this complex and reserved individual. In its quest to deconstruct the mundane, private appeal of family memories, Doi calls the film an “anti-home movie,” yet in keeping with the diaristic quality of her previous works, My father, burned paints its portrait of memory akin to a window onto a chamber or interior space, through which ambiguous emotions resonate and resound.

My Father, Burned

8.0 1994
流れるままのグリーン

Tokyo, 1998. Sisters Keiko and Sumiko learn of their father's death through a message on an answering machine. The weather is abnormal and the winter days continue. Keiko's mental state deteriorates in response, and she is finally hospitalised. Her sister Sumiko, lonely and anxious, begins to use sleeping pills regularly. Yuko, a female friend who had an abortion, left for the south after the man she had been having an affair with committed suicide. In addition, her sister, who has escaped from the hospital, jumps into a train right in front of Sumiko. On television, they report the abnormal breeding of fireflies. In desperation, Sumiko takes the train to the home of the fireflies.

流れるままのグリーン

NR 1992
A Cinematographer

The voice of what appears to be a film school teacher echoes on the screen. A film school teacher's voice echoes on the screen: "To be able to do anything is the same as not being able to do anything. The film is shot by the protagonist. There is a dizzying kaleidoscope of different perspectives, angles and movements, all based on the motif of the sphere. As if to counteract the teacher's harsh criticism and his own inherent anxiety about his own creation, the protagonist begins to turn the camera again, without hesitation. There is no coherent story, but rather an exposition of images that speak eloquently of the director's own mental landscape.

A Cinematographer

NR 1991
Children's Book

A freelance writer who writes for a local magazine. Recently has been in a slump and his writing has been slow. His editor, Kyoko, worries that he is just dazed, watching videos sent to him by friends on their travels. Then Akira's cousin, Yoiko, comes to visit him. She refuses to go back to her family, but Akira decides to keep her with him for a while. There are many sad and tender scenes, and the scenery with Akira, who can't write, and Yoiko, who stutters, has a very poetic sound and aftertaste as the title suggests. The final scene is so vivid that you can't help saying "I've been hit! It is so vivid that you want to say "I've been hit!

Children's Book

NR 1990
Sukima

After being forced to move out of his apartment after he runs out of money, a young man named Tanaka decides to make a go of life on the streets. He finds a sheltered, deserted spot in the spaces between the city buildings, and things seem to be going fairly comfortably for him. After a short time, however, he discovers that the tiny corridors between the buildings seem to extend for miles in every direction, and that there is a tribe of violent people living in them, led by a strange old man. Will Tanaka be able to live in peace with them, or will he have to fight for his life?

Sukima

9.0 1999