Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
| 01 January 1999 (USA)
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Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.

Reviews
Phonearl

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Dynamixor

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Taraparain

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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Sharkflei

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

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