[2005]

After All, I’m 70 Years Old

(“Kyokushitekini tsuini koki”)
Director: SUZUKI Shirouyasu

2005 Japanese Subtitled in - Color Video 35 min

Music: Kenmoku Hisawo
Appearance: Suzuki Shirouyasu, Suzuki Mari, Akita Yuki, Nogami Kinuyo, Yamamoto Yuko (voice), Tama Art University Drama Performance Jiraiya cast
  Contact Name: SUZUKI Shirouyasu
3-15-11 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0064 JAPAN
E-mail: srys@catnet.ne.jp
URL: www.catnet.ne.jp/srys/allindex.html

[Festivals and prizes] Image Forum Festival 2005, YIDFF 2005

[Synopsis] Going on seventy, the filmmaker begins daily exercises to combat aging. Appreciating the flowers in his garden each day, he starts to feel invigorated. The latest video work by a pioneer of the Japanese personal film.


SUZUKI Shirouyasu

Born 1935 in Tokyo, Suzuki Shirouyasu began writing poems in 1952. He worked for NHK as a 16mm movie cameraman from 1961 to 1977, and has published twenty-two books of poetry and completed forty-seven films including personal films he began in 1966.