DOR@MO
A series of movie projects planned and produced by Sony Music Entertainment.
Stories are based on songs by Sony Music's popular artists. DOR@MO has the distribution service to mobile phone and PC besides the regular theater distribution. This project kicked off in December 2008 and has featured the songs by Miliyah Kato, JUJU, Shota Shimizu, Gospellers, sukimaswitch, Shoko Nakagawa and etc in the past.
These pieces are distributed to mobile phone and pc, released as DVD, and screened at theaters across Japan.
"Sunao Ni Naretara (If I can be honest)", based on the song by JUJU featuring Spontania, won many advertizing awards from home and overseas as the first "Pair Movies" in the history, since it offers to the audience a unique experience; there are two versions of footages which are visually connected. One of the versions shows the left part of whole images and the other shows the right part. These two images can be enjoyed simultaneously or separately.
In June 2010, "8mm"won Music Short PV Competition Best Short Award at "SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2011", the biggest short film festival in Asia accredited by U.S Academy. Additionally, "8mm" is invited by the first Kavalan International Short Film Festival 2011 in Taiwan and will be screened in Fun Music category. In the winter of 2010, the DOR@MO project produced and distributed two movies with first attempt; staring artists (Shoko Nakagawa and Yuya Matsushita).
In 2011, "Control Tower"(duration: 68minutes) featuring a song by Galileo Galilei, was planned, produced and distributed. This piece will be screened at "Japan Cuts", a film festival of contemporary Japanese Cinema, held at Japan Society in New York. (Japan Cuts : http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts) Additionally, it will be screened at
Raindance Film Festival in London. (Raindance Film Festival :
http://www.raindance.cp.uk)
(2011, 68min., Director: Takahiro Miki, Writer: Yukiko Mochiji)
Based on the Galileo Galilei’s first original song, "Control Tower". Directed by Takahiro Miki, who made a spectacular debut by directing the hit movie, "Soranin". Leading actors are Ai Hashimoto who get huge attention by starring in "Confession" and Kento Yamazaki, starring "Clone Baby", who is expanding his career as an actor.This film is not Galileo Galilei's documentary but the original story inspired by their song, "Control Tower".All of the scnens from this movie are shot in Wakkanai, the northern end of Japan, during the harsh winter. Having pure footage and two fresh actors, this film expresses Galileo Galilei's music world.
(2008, 35 min., Director and Writer:Tetsu Maeda)
"Kimi Ni Utatta Love Song" is the big hit song and its ring tone versions recorded over 1.5 million downloads.
Tetsu Maeda, a TIFF awarded director, made this song into the film.
Starring Fumi Nikaido, getting a growing attention. She and other teen actors are fresh and convincing.
This is a story of great friendship.
A debut work of Fumi Nikaido who won the Marcello Mastroiannni award for best young actress Venice International Film Festival in 2011.
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