Kiyoshi KUROSAWA 黒沢清

Daguerreotype

ダゲレオタイプの女

Nippon Cinema   ª 

Jean works as an assistant to the daguerreotype photographer Stéphane in Paris. When Marie, Stéphane’s daughter, wants to escape her oppressive environment with Jean’s help, ghosts of the past come back to haunt both father and daughter. In his first production shot outside of Japan, NIPPON HONOR AWARD 2016 recipient Kiyoshi KUROSAWA pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo with a morbid film poem.

ダゲレオタイプの女
Dagereotaipu no onna

Japan, France, Belgium 2016

131 minutes

Director
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA

Script
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA

Cinematography
Alexis Kavyrchine

About Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
黒沢清

Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, born in Kobe in 1955, started his career as an assistant director for Shinji SOMAI, among others. He had his international breakthrough with CURE (1997 / NC ’16). He received the Prix Un Certain Regard in Cannes twice: for TOKYO SONATA (NC ’16) in 2008 and for JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (NC ’16) in 2015. Since 2005, he has been teaching at the Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2016, he received the NIPPON HONOR AWARD at the Nippon Connection Film Festival.




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