Of the two projects he currently has in development, one is again set there. “The way I like to shoot my films is to capture the actors simply as they are - to only capture their existence - and that’s the real reason I wrote this story of characters with no memory.”Īfter shooting his first two features on Sado Island, Tomina says he’s probably still not ready to let go of the place. “I don’t like for actors to draw from memory or psychology,” he says. The director gave his two leads no background for their characters other than the vague hints of biography that are in the script. Komatsu, also an in-demand fashion model, is best known internationally for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, while Matsuda has appeared in dozens of films but made his career breakthrough at the age of just 15 in Nagisa Ōshima’s Taboo (1999). Keira Knightley on loving Pride u0026 Prejudice and partying through Atonement Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen Full Audiobook Mr. ![]() “Matsuda and Komatsu were my first choice and I’m very grateful they said yes because this was a small production and they are big stars in Japan.” “Since the story is a bit detached from reality and the characters have a kind of blank psychology, I needed actors who could convince the audience just by being present,” Tomina explains. The island is also Japan’s closest landmass to North Korea and it is one of the sights where the Kim regime abducted Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and early 80s. During the Edo period (1603-1868), the ruling Tokugawa shogunate shipped criminals and indigents to Sado Island and forced them to work the mines - often to their deaths. Sado Island occupies a somewhat spooky place in the Japanese public consciousness. Walking the island, the director was struck by the sight of a landform known as”Split Mountain” in Japanese, a towering cliff cleft in half centuries ago by the gold mining that took place beneath it for generations beginning in the 1500s. ![]() The premise for the film came to Tomina as he was finishing his debut feature Blue Wind Blows (2018), which was also shot on Sado Island (and later premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in the Generation Kplus section). Canadian Actors Union "Relieved" at Tentative SAG-AFTRA Deal to End Strike
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