Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

(1995)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1995

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: France, Japan

Director: 吉田喜重

Cast: 吉田喜重, 高橋明, 志水季里子

Plot

A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after its inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.