3248As I looked up at the tree, I realized, "Oh, this is the Tamagawa-josui where Osamu Dazai committed suicide," and I felt even more depressed because I had been rejected from the university of my first choice. However, when I looked at the branches growing weakly under the cloudy sky and thought, "I wonder if these branches will be full of green in the spring," I felt a surge of life force. This made me wonder why Dazai committed suicide in a place so full of life. When this place becomes dazzling with fresh greenery, I may be living my student life here. My steps became lighter. I drew a picture of a dead tree I saw at Tamagawa-josui on my practical exam, and passed the exam. For the next nine years, I spent my time making images, encouraged by the sight of fresh greenery. It was here that I met my lifelong teacher, Tsutomu Konno Professor (at the time). Mr. Konno joined Radio Tokyo (now TBS) in 1959 and founded Japan's first video production company, TV Man Union, in 1970. Today, at the age of 83, he is still an active television director at the forefront of the industry. Since the pioneering days of television, he has been searching for expression that only television can offer, and has produced some of the world's finest programs. In 2000, when he was a junior in college, Mr. Konno instructed him that the key to excellence in student films was location. I immediately thought, "Ehime, with its beautiful ocean, mountains, and sunsets. I was especially reminded of Mutsukeshima, a remote island in Ehime. Mutsukushima is a 30-minute ferry ride from Takahama Port on the outskirts of Matsuyama City. It is a small island with a circumference of 13 km and a current population of about 200. This is where my father's family lived, and several relatives still live there. I was not born and raised here, but when I was a child, spending summer vacations here was one of the happiest times of my life. I played with my siblings and many cousins at the beach, ate the fish we caught and the food my aunts cooked, built a bonfire at the gravesite, saw off the lantern floating ceremony, did the Bon dance, watched fireworks, gazed up at the star-filled sky, and slept under a mosquito net. It was a summer scene that now seems like something out of a movie. Mutsuki Island, where villages spread out on either side of a harbor on the south side of the island. The film tells the story of a young man who has fallen on hard times in Tokyo and regains his dreams, encouraged by the scenery of his hometown and his friends. In this production, I was so occupied with finishing shooting the lines of the script I had written that I was not able to direct the film well. However, the sunset we shot for the last scene was so beautiful that I kept looking at it with everyone after the shoot. This experience was the starting point of my continuing to make films in Ehime. Later, he went on to graduate school, and his graduation project "Kogiin-deena" (2003, 60 min.) was also set on Mutsuki Island. As he continued to make films in Ehime, he came to see not only the charm of his hometown, but also its challenges. He noticed that local culture and industry were declining due to depopulation. What should be considered and acted upon in order to connect to the future became a theme. At this point, what I had learned and what I could do was to make films. I took a gamble and tackled the question of what I and the film could do. The story is about a 14-year-old girl who lives on an island and is thinking about her future as she approaches the boy's ceremony (a custom in Ehime similar to the traditional "Genpuku" ceremony in the olden days). A fictional setting was created in which a cousin came from Tokyo with a camera to show the current situation on the island, which was shaken by the bridge issue, and a "documentary drama" was used to show actual events and scenery, such as the Bon dance and the tangerine cultivation.
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