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Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema (1995)

Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida

Overview

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 it’s inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman’s head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

Length 50 minutes

Actors

Yoshishige Yoshida | Akira Takahashi | Kiriko Shimizu