Kamata Prelude

Kamata Prelude (2020)

蒲田前奏曲

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a struggling actress named Machiko who lives in Kamata. Machiko is the central axis of the movie as the film comically depicts what it means to be a "woman" and an "actress" in society through showing the patterns of life as conducted by her and the people that surround her.

Date of release
2020-09-25
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ryutaro Nakagawa, Mayu Akiyama, Yuka Yasukawa, Hirobumi Watanabe

Casting

Interesting facts

Kamata Prelude is a 2020 Japanese anthology film starring Urara Matsubayashi, Sairi Ito, Kumi Takeuchi, Mayuko Fukuda and Kotone Furakawa. It is composed of four segments written and directed by Ryutaro Nakagawa, Mayu Akiyama, Yuka Yasukawa and Hirobumi Watanabe, three of which feature Machiko, an actress.

Production

Actress Urara Matsubayashi decided to produce a film on her own based on her own experiences as a woman in the Japanese film industry after consulting Kosuke Ono, her co-producer for the anthology film 21st Century Girl who would go on to serve as an executive producer for the project. She was also inspired by actress Kiki Sugino, who had also begun to produce and direct her own films.

Matsubayashi conceptualised the film as an episodic drama with each segment connected through the character Machiko Kamata, an actress from Ōtawara, who was to be portrayed by Matsubayashi herself. This was inspired by the film Gusto Kita with All My Hypothalamus, a four-part anthology film with each segment revolving around one of four men who are "obsessed" with the same woman.

All four segments were shot independently, and the first three were filmed in the Summer of 2019. Akiyama's segment, "Nomikawa Rhapsody", was shot first. She wrote a screenplay revolving around a girls' night out between a group of friends and former classmates, with each individual keeping secrets from the others. Though Machiko is in the group, the main characters are instead Hona and Mari.

Yasukawa's segment, "Dead End People", was shot second. Matsubayashi had asked her to focus on the MeToo movement as the central theme. In planning the segment, Mastubayashi shared her own experiences as a survivor of sexual abuse in the film industry with Yasukawa, particularly on how those around her looked the other way when she was harassed by a producer, and on how perpertrators would claim in public that they were against sexual harassment.…

Nakagawa's segment, "Kamata Lament", was shot third. Matsubayashi asked him to have the segment depicting the romance of Machiko's younger brother, Taizo. Nakagawa chose to introduce the theme of war and its impact in addition to the central theme. The segment revolves around Machiko and Setsuko, Taizo's girlfriend, who spends time and bonds with Machiko.

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