THE JOURNEY TO TOKYO
O.V. in Spanish subtitled in English
A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, the personification of so many Spanish pop musicians; his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds where differentiating between truth and illusion doesn’t matter: that is the storyline of The Journey to Kyoto. What begins as a tragicomedy about a musician clinging to a distant past where he tasted glory, ends up being a precise metaphor for our day, where we all have the same pretensions of living an old success.
Direction: Pablo Llorca
Script: Pablo Llorca
Cinematography: Wiro Berriatúa
Sound: Alex Marais
Cast: Carlos Domingo, Rafael Rojas, María Jesús Garrido, Luis Moreno, Mónica Gabriel y Galán, Elena Lancha, Carlos Santos
Production Company: La Cicatriz/La Bañera Roja. www.lacicatriz.net
Pablo Llorca
Madrid, 1963. He is the Spanish independent director par excellence. With a degree in history, since 1989 this writer, programmer and filmmaker has directed (produced, written and edited) all his films with the production company La Bañera Roja / La Cicatriz. He became known with titles such as Venecias (1989), Jardines colgantes (1993), Todas hieren (1998), La espalda de Dios (2000) and La cicatriz (2004), with which he participated in festivals such as San Sebastian, Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, London, Chicago and Gijon. He has been in Seville with his films RECOLETOS arriba y abajo (2012), Un ramo de Cactus (2013), El gran salto adelante (2014), País de TODO A 100 (2014), Días de color naranja (2016) and Ternura y la tercera persona (2017). El viaje a Kioto is his latest film.