How can this European who speaks only a few words of Japanese get on with the villagers? He insists gracefully until he meets a schoolgirl. He is welcomed into her family. However, leave is taken in a typically polite Japanese way.

Filmmaking workshop in November-December 2013 in Tawara, a village near Nara, the birthplace of the Japanese film director Naomi Kawase, who directed this film with her assistants and the team from the Film.

Type
Grands Ateliers BA
Runtime
12 min
Year
2014
Country
Switzerland
Aspect ratio
1.1:77 (16/9)
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
XDCAMEX
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
English
Direction
Raphaël Harari
Production
HEAD – Geneva
Screenplay
Raphaël Harari
Editing
Raphaël Harari
Photography
Raphaël Harari
Sound
Raphaël Harari
Co-production
Nara Film Festival Organizing Committee
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How can this European who speaks only a few words of Japanese get on with the villagers? He insists gracefully until he meets a schoolgirl. He is welcomed into her family. However, leave is taken in a typically polite Japanese way.

Filmmaking workshop in November-December 2013 in Tawara, a village near Nara, the birthplace of the Japanese film director Naomi Kawase, who directed this film with her assistants and the team from the Film.

Type
Grands Ateliers BA
Runtime
12 min
Year
2014
Country
Switzerland
Aspect ratio
1.1:77 (16/9)
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
XDCAMEX
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
English

Direction
Raphaël Harari
Production
HEAD – Geneva
Screenplay
Raphaël Harari
Editing
Raphaël Harari
Photography
Raphaël Harari
Sound
Raphaël Harari
Co-production
Nara Film Festival Organizing Committee

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