WomenCinemakers, Special Edition, Vol.22

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Women Cinemakers does your everyday life's experience fuel your creative process to address your choices regarding the stories you tell in your films? Tokio Yes. Daily life always good. I meet people and share many emotions, from good Daily life, from bad Daily life. It is true emotion. They create my movies. Featuring veritĂŠ style, escapes the boundaries of traditional narrative, to inquire into an ever shifting internal struggle: would you tell how did you develop the script and the structure of your film? Tokio I only wrote a script for lovers' scenes. I shot the rice planting scene with improvisation. Because I received opinions from members of rice fields "We want to enjoy rice plants and don't want to be controlled". But I was worried about whether it could be a movie. For that reason, I asked one staff to join the rice planting together with the actor. Between the actors he entered and planted the rice until the end, but I believe it produced a good effect.

Featuring well orchestrated camera work, has drawn heavily from the specifics of the environment of the rice field where you shot it and we have highly appreciated the way you have created such insightful resonance between the environment and the story that


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