Synopsis
Tokyo, at the end of the 1950s. A man investigates the strange suicide of Christophe, his friend and university colleague. His research leads him to wander at night, in a city with a suffocating atmosphere full of mysteries.
Credits
Director (1)
Actresses (3)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Darjeeling
- Co-production : Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Marc Lustigman
- Screenwriter : Albertine Magnard
- Director of Photography : Jonathan Martin
- Editor : Raphaël Matthieu
- Author of original work : Jake Adelstein
- Voice : Ayumi Roux, Ingrid Lecarte, Yumi Narita
- Production Manager : Eliott Baillon
- Sound Editor : Raphaël Matthieu
- Visual effects : Jonathan Martin
- Sound Mixer : Laurent Thomas
- Narrator : Maxime Dambrin
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Crime/thriller, Psychological drama
- Themes : Murder, Human nature , Désir
- Production language : English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2019
- Runtime : 14 min 31 seconds
- Production formats : Super 16 - Super 35
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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