Overview
Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.
Cast
Reiko
Ryouhei / Mamoru Noguchi
Kunio Miki
Ito Bun / Kayoko Kanamori
Akira Nishijima / Noboru Komiyama
Hidenori Watanabe / Clerk 2
Urara Tezuka / Yukie Noguchi
Taro Nakamura / Shinnosuke Tada
Akiko Katori / Etsuko Shiomi
Kensuke Hayashi / Clerk 1