The Song of Stone

24m
Documentary
6.5

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about. In his opinion, filmmakers work images in the same way that stonecutters work stones.

Cast

Crew

Toshio Matsumoto
Director
Masayuki Nagare
Writer
Y. Ernest Satow
Director of Photography
Junosuke Okuyama
Sound Engineer
Kuniharu Akiyama
Music

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