Le Mystère Koumiko

Name: Le Mystère Koumiko
Director: Chris Marker
Released: 1965

Chris Marker

identity and belonging cultural displacement post-war Japan memory and nostalgia modernization and tradition

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Synopsis

Koumiko Muraoka, a young Japanese woman born in Manchuria and educated in France, wanders through Tokyo while she reflects on identity, memory, and what it means to be Japanese in a rapidly changing world.

Cinema Atlas Connection

That's it, that was the inspiration! I wanted to have a Japanese woman in Thailand, like in Chris Marker's film, but I couldn't find an actress who could follow my ideas.

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