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- Movie: Half Empty or Half Full
- Romaji:
- Japanese: 半身反義
- Director: Kayo Takefuji
- Writer:
- Producer:
- Cinematography: Tomohiko Tsuji
- Release Date: July 5, 2008
- Runtime: 90 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Notes
First half of film features documentary on filmmaker Tatsuji Yamagishi, while the second half is a movie dealing with the Tatsuji Yamagishi's thoughts and emotions.
Plot
Here is an old man (Tatsuji Yamagishi) .
A stroke has left his left half body disabled. He lives in a hospital under professional care.
His wife has already passed away and he has no children.
He was once a famous filmmaker? the chief director of the official documentary of the Tokyo Olympiad 1964 and Japan Expo 1970.
He wishes to write a book about the image culture.
His name is Tatsuji Yamagishi.
One day, A woman filmmaker (Kayo Takefuji) visits him.
She says she wants to make a documentary film about him.
She goes out and shoots the places important to his personal history with a video camera and shows it to him.
He watches the images with pleasure.
Then she proposes an opening up of the imagination.
She decides to make a fictional film featuring a young man
(Hideo Nishijima) , who is the substitute Tatsuji. In the film, the young man follows Tatsuji’s life, at the end of which he finds himself standing alone
in the wind on a sand hill.
Did he discover a real freedom, or is it just a fantasy?
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