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MIWA : A JAPANESE ICON

MIWA : À LA RECHERCHE DU LÉZARD NOIR

By Pascal-Alex VINCENT

Documentary - Completed 2009

MIWA, A JAPANESE ICON is a colorful, aware, musical, serious and comic journey through a still little-known period in Japanese history.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, JAPAN
- Languages
- FRENCH, JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Pascal-Alex VINCENT
- Writer(s)
- Pascal-Alex VINCENT
- Cast
- Akihiro MIWA
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-610D-0000-I-0000-0000-K
- Producer(s)
- Nicolas BREVIERE (LOCAL FILMS)
- Synopsis
- AKIHIRO MIWA was one of Japan’s most beloved celebrities of the 60’s and the 70’s when the country’s Studio System began its decline.
  His films and songs fire the imagination; he is the last vestige of those glamorous days. On top of that, MIWA-SAN was a man posing as a woman, and his audience knew it. From his hit Meke Meke to his work with HAYAO MIYAZAKI, this documentary will look back at one’s of Japan’s pop culture idols.
  MIWA-SAN’s renown cut across all of post-war Japan: he appeared in film, music, television, theater and literature. MIWA-SAN: A JAPANESE ICON will tell the story of a country in the midst of revolutionary change through the eyes of this singular, one-of-a-kind artist.
  Using a combination of archival footage, MIWA-SAN’s own first-hand accounts, and his films and songs, the documentary will try to capture this particular perfume of the 60’s and 70’s in Japan. It will chronicle a fertile period of change, but also a tumult, through the incisive, offbeat views of a Japanese original who has borne witness to half-century of Japanese history.
- Partners & financing
- CINECINEMA
  Centre National du Cinéma
  JAPAN FOUNDATION
  UMEDIA (International sales)
  9 MILES
- Beginning of shooting
- Dec 01, 2009