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MEMORY AND DESIRE
The lifeless body of a young Japanese man is hauled from the New Zealand surf. Sayo, his distraught wife, has to be restrained as lifesavers strive vainly to resuscitate him.
MEMORY AND DESIRE
New Zealand, 1998
Director: Niki Caro
The lifeless body of a young Japanese man is hauled from the New Zealand surf. Sayo, his distraught wife, has to be restrained as lifesavers strive vainly to resuscitate him.
Minutes earlier, she and Keiji were making love with an intensity they would not have believed possible. They had travelled to New Zealand to marry, away from the disapproving mother of Keiji.
A journey where they began to navigate the uncharted waters of their sexual relationship. After Keiji’s death, Sayo returns to Tokyo to accompany his body. Determined to mourn with the family of her late husband, she moves to Keiji’s mother’s home, but is rejected….
Screenplay:
Niki Caro (based on a story by Peter Wells)
Cinematography:
Dion Beebe
Editing:
Margot Francis
Music:
Peter Scholes
Principal cast:
Yuri Kinugawa, Eugene Nomura, Yoko Narahashi
Production: Goldwyn Films / 35mm / colour / 89 mins.
Director:
Writer and director Niki Caro is well known in New Zealand for the films she has shot for television. Her short film Sure the Rise was selected for Cannes in 1994. Since then, she has directed another short feature, Footage, presented at Venice in 1996. Her latest film is Whale Rider (2002).
