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Keiko Tsuruoka. Director. Writer. Editor. IMDbProSee rank. Keiko Tsuruoka is known for The Town of Whales (2012), A Light in the Distance (2014) and Utsuroi no hyôhonbako (2016). Add photos, demo reels Add to list.
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Bakanuri no Musume: Directed by Keiko Tsuruoka. With Ryôta Bandô, Mayu Hotta, Jonagold, Sawada Hanna Joy. Aoki Miyako, a young woman from Hirosaki, helps her father in his Tsugaru lacquer-ware workshop.
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- Keiko Tsuruoka
- 2023-09-01
The process of creating lacquerware is one that requires patience. Director Keiko Tsuruoka closes the gap between the audience and the traditional craft with quiet, long minutes of the family patriarch, Seishiro, and the daughter, Miyako, applying lacquer on wooden bowls.
Oct 18, 2023 · Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned Japanese domestic drama. Traditional lacquerwork kitchenware is the Aoki family’s legacy, handed down to patriarch Seishiro (Kaoru Kobayashi) by his now-ailing father (Masayuki Suzuki). Seishiro expects to pass it in turn to his son Yu (Ryota Bando ...
Feb 11, 2024 · The way Keiko Tsuruoka cinematically narrates this touching story is hypnotising, for the detailed way in which she captures the various artisanal steps of this technique. Small seeds, egg whites, special varnishes coalesce, just as the three generations of the Aoki family, bringing to life a masterpiece. Final Grade: B+
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Jul 8, 2013 · Keiko Tsuruoka is a 25 year old filmmaker who made her first feature film less than a year ago. Its title is Town of Whales, a story of adolescence and melancholia in post-earthquake Japan. Tsuruoka is still in the process of studying film in Tokyo, where she made her first short film Tsutomete no kaeramichi (2009).
