Silver Wheel

Silver Wheel (1955)

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Silver Wheel (Bicycle in Dream) is a PR film that was produced to promote the export of bicycles. However, Matsumoto Toshio, who was an employee of the Shin-riken Pictures, which had been contracted to produce the film, asked for the cooperation of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Kitadai Shozo and Takemitsu Toru, at the time members of Jikken Kobo, and also invited the participation of Tsuburaya Eiji, the leading expert in the field of special effects. Therefore, this work depicts a young boy’s dreams concerning a bicycle, while making the most of the realistic and materialistic character of bicycle parts and of surreal and fantasy-like scenes. Due to the course of its production and the fresh images and music used, this was seen as being the first example of experimental cinema in postwar Japan.

Date of release
1955-01-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
12m
Genres
Animation
Director
Genichiro Higuchi, Toshio Matsumoto, Masao Yabe

Interesting facts

Ginrin , also known as Bicycle in Dream and Silver Wheels, is a 1955 Japanese short promotional colour film directed by Genichiro Higuchi, Toshio Matsumoto and Masao Yabe in collaboration with the Jikken Kōbō avant-garde art collective. It was written by Shozo Kitashiro, Matsumoto and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi for the Japan Bicycle Industry Association and was Matsumoto's first film.

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