Winter Oranges (2000) | Stream

WINTER ORANGES 

Ryuki grew up on Sagi Island, known for its cultivation of succulent oranges. Married, but bored, he dreams of going to Tokyo to work in the theater. Tourists from Tokyo arrive for the summer and Ryuki is tempted by a bold city girl. She leaves a winter orange for him by her door. Can he resist?

Sagi Poesis Il is a filmmaking workshop which brought young Japanese. actors and artists together with American director Rob Nilsson to invent a new kind of film. WINTER ORANGES is a non-profit, regional collaboration presented by Studio Malaparte, and shot on Sagi island off the coast of Hiroshima, Japan.

World Premiere: Fukuoka Film Archive in Fukuoka, Japan, March 2000

USA Premiere: Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California, in October 2000.

"Nilsson's films are beautiful, exciting, imaginative, unfamiliar – and outside of that, very good."

– John Cassavetes, Director/Actor

“He is an innovative master who is in the prime of his career- spinning stories with the ease of a grand jazz master such as John Coltrane or Miles Davis.”

– Mark Fishkin, Executive Director, Mill Valley Film Festival

Director:

• Rob Nilsson

Co-director:

• Nobuhiro Suwa

Story:

• Sagi Island Workshoy

• Rob Nilsson

• Nobuhiro Suwa

Improvised by the Cast:

• Ryuki ‘Duke’ Tenmaya as Ryuki

• Chie Uchida as Chie Uchida

• Kaori Nakata as Kaori

• Hinako Atsumi

• Shintaro Hashimoto

• Mr. and Mrs. Hikifi

• Meiko Kajita

• Mitsuru Kawamoto

• Kaori Michimachi

• Masami Murayama

• Muneyoshi Murakami

• Kaname Oda

• Toshiyuki Oka

• Yuichiro Okimoto

• Akihiko shibata

• Yasuaki Suzuki

• Kuniaki Tanaka

• Hiroko Yasunaga

Cinematographer:

• Tazz Nishihara

Additional cinematography:

• Hideyuki Miyaoka

Still photographer:

• Shintaro Hashimoto

Sound recording:

• Sivah 

• Kuniaki Tanaka

Sound recording support:

• Harnyuki Suzuki

• The Film school of Tokyo

Assistant Director:

• Nobuhiro Suwa

Production:

• Studio Malayarte

Production Support:

• Fukuoka City Public Library

• Mihara City Board of Education

• Sagi-Shima Seminar House

• Sagi-Shima Cottage

• CAMP

• Habu-shosen

2nd unit (b-roll):

• Nobuhiro Suva

• Hideyuki Miyaoka

Driver:

• Yoshihiko Yamabuki

• Yoshimichi Ishimaru

Best Boy:

• Alexander Gray-spight

Best Girl:

• Sara Miyaoka

Translation and dialog Editing:

• Chikara Motomura

Scriptor:

• Hiroko Yasunaga

Interpreter:

• Sumire Tokutomi

Editors:

• Chikara Motomura

• Marshall Spight

Visual Effects:

Marshall Spight

Sound Editor:

• Al Nelson

Sound Mix:

• Al Nelson

Producers:

• Hideyuki Miyaoka

• Rob Nilsson

• Tazz Nishihara

• Kevin Michael Winterfield

Grant for Sagi Poiesis II Transfiction:

• Japan-United States Friendshiy Commission

• The Japan Foundation

• Energía Culture and Sports Foundation

Special Thanks:

• Masaki Sakiyama

• Iwao Nítta

• Yasuaki Takasu

• Shoko Kobayashí

• Teruhisa Kóbayashi

• Yasuhito Higuchi

• Masakí Sawano

• Ryoji Suzuki

• SYU&RIN

• Katsuro Kamei

• Emi Aoki

• Tomoko Horie

• Hiroshi Ando

• Shinya Kawamoto

• Nobuyuki Kikuchi

• Okada Shipbuilding Co.

• The People of Sagi Island

• Yoshimasa Ogawa

• Mamoru Hiruta

• Ikyo Fufimoto

• MA-TOLLe

• Yasuhito Masuda

• Tomomi Otsubo

• Akio ryatomi

• Akiko Inoue

• Tor Akaboshi

• Ayako Fufte

• Jín Hara

• Michi Akutagawa

• Teruyuki Fukuoka

• Hitoshi Miyata

• Mariko Ogawa

• Mr. and Mrs. Matsushima

• Mr. and Mrs. Morinaka

• Mr. and Mrs. Nishihara

• Mr. and Mrs. Uchida

Quotes from, "The Narrow Road" by Basho

Okunrin Meta - David Schickele