One of the greatest living cinema directors will not get to make his final masterpiece, “The Dreaming Machine“.
He leaves behind a legacy of one TV series – “Paranoia Agent” and four films “Perfect Blue”, “Millennium Actress”, “Tokyo Godfathers” and “Paprika”. “Tokyo Godfathers” was set in some of the same locations in Tokyo where we shot Tiger.
Here is a remix we did ages ago of Susumu Hirasawa’s amazing track from the Paprika soundtrack, “The Girl In Byakkoya”:
This particular film featured three incredible men in direct collaboration: Yasutaka Tsutsui, the original author, Satoshi Kon the director and script writer and Susumu Hirasawa (best known for his Berserk soundtrack).
Someone has done a fan movie of Paprika to our remix:
First Malcolm McLaren and now Satoshi. The world seems to be thinning.
There was also an intimate photography wall of photos from models in Tokyo, some of whom were involved in Tiger, some of whom are just part of Beaufort - Julia Bijoch, Christian Benesch, Zorana Adzic and Rachel Blais.
John Colette has just written an in-depth dissection of Tiger and it’s place in current culture and given it a great review:
“Cleverly, TIGER skirts the use of Tokyo as a kitsch backdrop, forgoing the glib outsider view of the city that Lost in Translation can’t resist. The Japanese themselves barely feature in the film, and the naïve observations of the cultural outsider are mercifully absent…it retains a vibrancy of vision that holds together extremely well over the hour or so that it runs. Combining this with what are genuinely resonant moments of observation, it is a pleasure to watch.”
John is a world-renowned digital media guru based in Sydney whose blog specialises in examining generally accepted notions about the modern digital world and examining memes and social theory.
Joan Baez – Silent running
Anoraak – Above your head
The Hasbeens – Keep fooling yourself
Tangerine Dream – Dancing on a white moon
Paul – Take me to the limit
Vitalic – Second lives (Lifelike Remix)
Grum feat Electric Youth – Turn it up
Cinnamon Chasers – You
Beaufort – She don’t care
College – White mosaic
Dmx Krew – Hellfire
College very generously contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of Tiger – ‘Teenage Color (Russ Chimes Remix)’ and ‘She Never Came Back (Instrumental)’. They are both from his album ‘Secret Diary‘.
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