Film

A Drifting Man and A Wandering Girl

1989 · 39m

A young man travels around in a truck while turning an 8mm camera. In his hometown in Kansai, he meets a high school girl. The film tells the story of the moratorium of youth through the connection of seemingly unrelated episodes between the young man and the girl. A truck driving through the city, a teacher from high school, an exchange with the girl. The film is full of transparency, with a conscious interplay between black and white and colour, as if it were a mental picture of the young man himself. In the last scene, the girl turns the 8mm camera on herself, and her face, enveloped in light, is refreshing.

Imanishi Keiko

Simon Kumai

• Koichi MatsunagaDirector · Producer
• Makoto HagiwaraDirector of Photography

Release date

January 1, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

39m