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Kenji MURAKAMI Special

Kenji MURAKAMI is one of the most influential indie directors of his generation. NIPPON CONNECTION introduces a small selection of the Murakami universe. Fiction and documentary collide and nothing is as it seems.

Tel-Club
(Natsu ni umareru)
by Kenji MURAKAMI

Bored, Kenji MURAKAMI starts to try and arrange dates through a “Tel-Club”; it doesn’t go well at first, but after a while something surprising happens …

Credits:
Japan 1998, video, 76 min, Japanese with English subtitles
Director, writer, director of photography, producer & world sales: Kenji MURAKAMI
Music: Satoshi YAJIMA
Cast: Rie UEMATSU, Yukiyasu SHIMADA, Shinobu KURIBAYASHI

Dear Mrs. Ougi
(Haikei - Ougi chikage-sama)

Kenji MURAKAMI arranges a meeting between two infamous figures of Japanese independent cinema; it‘s a meeting filled with a strange tension …

Credits:
Japan 2005, video, 32 min, Japanese with English subtitles
Director, writer, director of photography, producer & world sales: Kenji MURAKAMI
Cast: Kenji ONISHI, Yoko OGUCHI

Filmography (selection):
1998 Tel-Club (Natsu ni umareru); 2003 Living in Kawaguchi City (Kawaguchi de ikiro yo!); 2006 Documentaries Lie (Dokyumentari ha uso wo tsuku); 2008 Fujica Single Eight

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Sunday, April 18, 4 p.m.
German premiere

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