Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

50m
Documentary
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A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after its inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

Cast

Yoshishige Yoshida
Narrator (voice)
Akira Takahashi
Himself
Kiriko Shimizu
Herself

Crew

Yoshishige Yoshida
Director, Writer, Editor
Kazutami Hara
Director of Photography
Ned Burgess
Director of Photography

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