Kidnaping Blues

[Machine Translation] Uncle Tomo wa Watashi wo Kidnapped Me? A unique film starring Tamori in the lead role, and featuring a man and a girl traveling through the Japanese archipelago, and the people they meet, in the style of a sketch. A number of celebrities from the director's personal network appear in the film. Music by Yosuke Yamashita. -- A man calls out to a girl. The man is a musician and the girl is a keyboardist. The girl says, "I want to see the sea," and the two set off on a trip. On their journey, they meet various people. A man playing piano on a reclaimed land, a female teacher at an elementary school, a pachinko prize buyer, a middle-aged Waseda alumnus, an oden shop owner.... A bicycle ridden by Tamori and a young girl travels through the dry Japanese landscape shot by director Shinpei Asai himself. This film is also known as "Film Poems" (by Nagaharu Yodogawa) and "Postcards of the Wind" (by Saburo Kawamoto). The film was newly mastered using low contrast positives from a new print, and newly HD telecine-ed under the supervision of director Shinpei Asai, who was also in charge of cinematography. First DVD release!

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailers

「おじさんは わたしを誘拐したの?」コメンテーター、音楽プロデューサー等、多彩な顔を持つ写真家・浅井愼平が、タモリを主演に、日本列島を旅する男と少女と、彼らが出会う人々をスケッチ風に描いた異色作。監督の人脈で著名人が多数出演。音楽は山下洋輔。――男が女の子に声をかける。男はミュージシャン、女の子は鍵っ子。「海が見たい」という女の子の言葉で2人は旅に出る。旅先で2人は色々な人々に出会う。埋立地でピアノを弾く男、小学校の女教師、パチンコの景品買い、中年の早稲田OB、おでん屋の親父・・・。監督・浅井愼平自らが撮影する乾いた日本の風景の中を、タモリと少女の乗った自転車が行く。「映画詩集」(淀川長治)とも、「風の絵葉書」(川本三郎)とも言われた作品。ニュープリントのローコントラスト・ポジを素材に撮影も担当した浅井愼平監督の監修の下で新たにHDテレシネを行ったニューマスター仕様。初DVD化!!

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