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Retrospective Paulo Rocha

The Island of Love

A Ilha dos Amores

Portugal, Japan 1982 Fiction Cor 170 min.

The times, work, loves, life and death of Portuguese writer Wenceslau de Moraes (1854-1929), who left Portugal at the end of the 19th century to seek in Japan an art of living that would reconcile the material and the spiritual. Composed in nine parts, and with strong theatrical inspiration, the film is one of the most complex works in the history of Portuguese cinema.

Presented at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

Portugal Japan retrospective international festivals biopic

direção

Paulo Rocha

roteiro

Paulo Rocha, Luiza Neto Jorge, Sumiko Haneda

fotografia

Acácio de Almeida, Elso Roque, Kozo Okazaki

montagem

Yoshio Sugano

design de produção

Cristina Reis, Batica, Takahuru Sakaguchi

música

Paulo Brandão

elenco

Luis Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana, Zita Duarte, Yoshiro Mita, Atsuko Murakamo, Jun Toyokawa, Jorge Silva Melo, Paulo Rocha, Eri Tenni, Lei Wang

produtor

Paulo Rocha, Etsuko Takano, Manuel Guanilho, Toru Aizama

produzido por

Suma Filmes