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Guiding Star
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Guiding Star

Dec 31, 1987
1h 15m
★ 5.0

Overview

In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn baby. As he buries her under a tree in the garden, it made me think of his father, who died the year before. He is no longer with us, but only the gaze he left behind. And so I set off on a journey. In a town in the Hokuriku region, he met a woman who once appeared in one of his films. When I dozed off on the train to Tokyo, she appeared to me in a dream and tells me that I will soon find the exit. Back in Tokyo, I told Kamioka that I'm going to start filming again. I came back into the room, turned on the microphone and pressed the flame against the lens.

Genres

Drama

Cast

Keiko Teramoto

Keiko Teramoto

Kazumasa Teramoto

Kazumasa Teramoto

Mikio Yamazaki

Mikio Yamazaki

Ryo Kamioka

Ryo Kamioka

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