Takeda-san has disappeared. He could not stand the idea of being expelled from what was his home, a tent in Kasenjiki, “the place beside the river”. About twenty years ago, a blue tent city of about fifty homeless people took root on a small green space next to the River Arakawa in Tokyo. Before leaving, Takeda-san left me a letter asking me to “make a good movie”. I continued to film after he left. I filmed this place and its inhabitants, who have adapted themselves to this particular existence, far from the eyes of normal Japanese ... Until this place was destructed as planned…
2014
TOKYO BLUE, THE PLACE BESIDE THE RIVER
72
Full HD (1080x1920)
16:9
Color
DVD
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File
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Blu-ray
Japanese - French sub - English sub
Sylvain Garassus
Sylvain Garassus
Sylvain Garassus
Catherine Catella
Muriel Sorbo
Lyon Capitale TV – Vosges Télévision
Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l'image animée
Programme MEDIA de l’Union Européenne
PROCIREP - Société des Producteurs, l'ANGOA
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Corsica Docs 2014 (Corse) I Festival One World Human Rights 2014 (Prague) I Festival Millenium 2015 (Belgique) I Section de Ville du Monde au Centre Georges Pompidou 2015 (Paris) I Sélection Festival La toute première fois 2015, Aix-en-Provence I Rencontres Films en Bretagne 2015 I Festival Traces de Vie 2015, Clermont-Ferrand I Festival Rien à voir 2015, Lyon I Dispositif Les Toiles du Doc 2015, Ardèche Images, Lussas I Festival Traces de Vie 2015, Clermont-Ferrand I Festival À Nous de Voir 2015, Oullins.
