​R.I.P
​Dec.2018
​Live-Action 14min.
This work was made for my graduation research in the university I attended.
I was inspired by“Wings of Desire”(1987) by Wim Wenders n the research of
my 20000 word thesis in Japanese and a presentation to discribe the spiritual existence
of“ghosts“ in natural ways like a usual humans in the movie.
The story of this movie is about the girl“Kaori”who was killed in a traffic accident and woke up as a ghost to watch over her boyfriend“Masaru”.
The twist was that Masaru was already having a relationship with a boy ”Syotaro” even as he was still mourning about Kaori. Kaori could only watch over them with sadness,
as she is starting to forgive and accept them.
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I had some oppotunity to experience a LGBTQ and feminist activists community even though I am straight and an outsider.
When I heard their opinions and sufferings,
I felt that we really need to share love,
empathy and a kind of ”philanthropy”to understand other genders and cultures. We should love and believe each other
as humans as the first step to understand. I wanted show such a message in this movie.
Also I wanted to describe“pansexuality” and“bisexuality”which are not understood
much in Japan.