Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase
15 min / 360 animation/ produced by Atlas V, 2022
MISSING PICTURES is a VR documentary series that takes you behind the scenes of a film that never saw the light of day. Japan’s best-known filmmaker revisits a project she considered after her 2015 film The Delights of Tokyo. Oh Debu tells the story of Aya, a young woman who is overweight and very sentimental. With this story, Naomi Kawase admits she wanted to challenge herself by making a comedy with a tone far removed from the poetic naturalism of the rest of her work.