Inugami and Otogirisou

[Don Brown]

>How was the photography? He said he modeled many scenes on specific 
Baroque
>paintings....because he liked the feel, not because he thought people 
would
>recognize the references.

This was one of those films which, had I seen it back home in New Zealand, 
would have had me yearning to come to Japan.  Nothing to do with wanting to 
commune with mountain spirits, but simply that the location(s?) were so 
picturesque and idyllic, and the interiors of the various homes and 
workplaces had that pristine aura that only expert cinematography can 
confer on smelly old shacks in the middle of nowhere.  I couldn't tell a 
Baroque reference from a hole in the wall, but it did look fantastic.  Some 
nice swooping aerial shots too.  

>They looked for locations in Shikoku, but decided not to use them because
>they were so remote and not as nice as the ones they found on Honshu. 
Sorry,
>but I can't remember the name.

So it wasn't filmed on Shikoku at all?  There goes my summer mountain 
biking trip.  Fingers crossed that it's not too far from Osaka.
Don Brown

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