A no-holds-barred, narcissist and funny film correspondence between a Master Home-Movie-maker and an idiosyncratic artist-nymphomaniac. In this début film by the young film-maker, artist and composer Obitani Yuuri, his visits an exhibition of work by Yosufu Kosuzu. She has put a 'hair diary' on show: in a short time she went to bed with more than fifty different men and collected a pluck of pubic hair from each, stuck it on paper and framed it, each with the name of the man and the date neatly printed on a card. Obitani filmed her with his super8 camera at the exhibition and is obviously charmed by the perverse nature of the work - inJapan showing pubic hair is completely taboo. He later sent her a film and a camera so she could reply. That is the start of a comic and open-hearted film correspondence which turns into a more direct and finally into a very direct confrontation.The Hair Opera is a realistic report of the film correspondence but also the story of a seduction, a love story. Tony Rayns (Vancouver film festival catalogue): 'Not since David Holzman shot his famous Diary has first-person film-making been so startling and compulsive.'
- Director
- Obitani Yuuri
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1993
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1994
- Length
- 64'
- Medium
- umatic PAL
- International title
- The hair opera
- Language
- Japanese
- Sales
- Image Forum
- Screenplay
- Obitani Yuuri
- Cinematography
- Obitani Yuuri
- Editor
- Obitani Yuuri
- Music
- Obitani Yuuri