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BOY'S SONG
2003/DV/27min
A dreamy boy, who lives with his mentally unstable mother,
meets another boy who travels with his magician father.
A somewhat peculiar friendship ensues between the two boys.
The two boys, tired of playing typical childhood games,
begin robbing offertory boxes from shrine.
Then, with the sudden return of one boy's runaway father,
a confounding combination of reality and fantasy is triggered,
leading to the eventual loss of the boy's identity.
■CREW
Cameraman: Lisa KUDO
Gaffer: Daisuke GOTO
Recordist: Kosuke KATAOKA,Yo HIBINO
Assistant Director:
Keita MASTUI,Sumiko DOBASHI,Mihoko SAITOU
Set Decorator: Shugo TUCHIDA
Props: Tomoko ISHIDA
Still Photographer:
Chitose AKAMINE
Subtitle: Masa KOKUBO
Associate Producer:Yoshitaka ISHIZUKA
Producer:Kenzo KATAOKA
Written And Directed by:Lisa KUDO
(C)tal'-i tha cu'-mi 2003
■CAST
BOY1: Norikazu NAKAMURA
BOY2: Ryuji FURUSAWA
MOTHER: Maki TADACHI
MAGICHAN : Kenzo KATAOKA
BOY3: YO IKEDA
MONK: Manabu UCHIYAMA
FATHER: KONTA
■Director's
Profile
Lisa KUDO
Kudo was born in 1977 on Hokkaido, the most northern island of Japan, though
raised in Tokyo.
Her last film "Daga-Gada", a fantasy story depicting the psychological
spirit of
a girl's transcendental existence between life and death,
was selected amongst the winners of "Image Forum Festival 2002" -
one of the leading art house film festivals of Japan.
■Production
Note
This film is conveyed from the point of view of a dreamy boy.
As such, in order to create the requisite sense of obscure reality,
deliberate use of sound and locations were utilized to ensure that
the depiction of time and place are ambiguous.
For example, from the viewer's perspective, a shrine,
a temple and a protestant church(1) appear to cross-respective religious boundaries.
Other effects are utilized to emphasize a nostalgic yet non-existent fantasy
world
such as; a 1930's quasi-western house(2), a 1940's telegraph station(3)
operated during World War II, and Hawaiian music from the 1920's.
The hazy reality of the boy has been depicted in numerous ways,
bringing divergent aspects together in harmony to evoke faint memories
of childhood from the viewer.
The composition of theme music and saxophone by Konta,
renowned Japanese musician, who also played father in the film.
(1) Arata Endo, architect, pupil of F. L. Wright.
(2) The house where the boy and his mother live wasscheduled to be demolished.
It was originally built at the start of the Showa era. (1926-1988)
(3) The magician's hut.
