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Coming and Going with the Wind

Somewhere It's Spring 1958 / B&W / 16mm / 65 min Production Company: Shin' eiga Production Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Atsugi Taka Photography: Segawa Hiroshi Music: Kusakawa Kei Cast: Imamura Shoichi, Ichiguchi Toshiko In this children's fiction film set in an Osaka middle school, Yanagisawa portrays a young hooligan who is reformed. This masterpiece does not so much offer a message about education as convey an image of what such youths carry in their hearts. A Little Tale about a Little Town 1960 / B&W / 16mm / 39 min Production Company: Kiroku Eigasha Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Furukawa Yoshinori Photography: Fuji Yozo Cast: Asagiri Kyoko, Kyo Tomoko, Shimizu Kin'ichi When the younger sister of a married man is widowed and left all alone to care for her children, the good-natured man and his wife take the bereaved family under their wing, all in addition to their own three children. Yanagisawa captures the situation humorously. Rodin 1962 / Color / 16mm / 23 min Production Company: Nihon Eiga Shinsha Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Photography: Fujita Masami Piano: Takahashi Yuji In this unabashedly enthusiastic art film, Yanagisawa shoots the many Rodin sculptures on display at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo's Ueno district. Screened in a new color print. Toray Pylen 1963 / Color / 16mm / 21 min Production: Japan Industrial Film Center Planning: Toyo Rayon Director, Script: Yanagisawa Hisao This PR film about the properties of polypropylene, once called the miracle textile, uses drawings and animation for a colorful effect. Screened in a new color print. Children Before the Dawn 1968 / B&W / 16mm / 120 min Production: "Children Before the Dawn" Production Committee, International Short Film Company Planning: Oki Foundation, The Center for the Comprehensive Study of Welfare for the Disabled Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Akihama Satoshi Photography: Segawa Jun'ichi Music: Miki Minoru Children Before the Dawn is the first full-length feature film director Hisao Yanagisawa made about a group home for disabled adults, and its residents. The directness and unpretentiousness with which Yanagisawa approaches the making of the film is shown in his self-reflective question about his own motivation for the work: "how is it best for me to participate in the work of this institution, which aims at the welfare of the disabled, by the means of expression available in film?" Children Before the Dawn served as the bold start for a series of four further films following residents of the group home. [Shirai Yoshio] Night and Morning Inside Myself
		1971 / Color / 16mm / 100 min Production: The Nishitaga Group to Provide Education for the Severely Disabled Producer: Konno Masami, Ukita Yoichi Director: Yanagisawa Hisao Script: Onuma Tetsuro Photography: Ishii Hironari, Akiyama Yo, Nagata Isamu Editing: Takahashi Haruko Music: Matsumura Teizo Sound: Ohashi Tetsuya Narrator: Ito Soichi Adviser: Kondo Fumio
Following the completion of Night and Morning Inside Myself, some friction developed between director Yanagisawa and the parents of the disabled children who had appeared in his film. These parents were reluctant to let appear in public some words which had been uttered by the children's physician-in-charge at the time of the filming. At that point, the director turned to the children and asked them, "well, you're the actors in the film? What do you want to do?" The children replied, "let it stay as it is. After all, it's true." [Shirai Yoshio]
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