Zigeunerweisen returns to Berlin

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Industry News

Independent Japanese sales company Free Stone Productions フリーストーン・プロダクション are representing sales of SUZUKI Seijun 鈴木清順's Taisho Trilogy at next month's European Film Market.

Zigeunerweisen ツィゴイネルワイゼン (1980) (pictured) was self-distributed by the director in an inflatable tent when he was working outside of Japan's studio system as an independent film-maker. It is recognised as one of his greatest films.

It competed at the Berlin International Film Festival thirty-one years ago, when it received an Honourable Mention. It also won four Japan Academy Awards 日本アカデミー賞 including best film. It stars HARADA Yoshio 原田芳雄, who died in July.

Free Stone also have the two other titles in Suzuki's Taisho Trilogy, branded by the sales company as "Deep Seijun", Heat-Haze Theatre 陽炎座 (1981), starring MATSUDA Yusaku 松田優作, and Yumeji 夢二 (1991).

At EFM, Free Stone will also be selling award-winning road movie About the Pink Sky ももいろそらを (2011), fresh from screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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