Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

Overview

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.

Cast

Yoshishige Yoshida

Narrator (voice)

Akira Takahashi

Himself

Kiriko Shimizu

Herself