Tokyo Is Dreaming

Tokyo is Dreaming is a 2008 documentary film by Peter I. Chang which depicts life in the Japanese capital and is accompanied by a score from Calexico's John Convertino. As a non-narrative portrait of the bustling metropolis, the documentary is a modern-day take on the City Symphonies that flourished in early 20th Century cinema with films such as Man with a Movie Camera.

Tokyo is Dreaming
Directed by	Peter I. Chang
Produced by	Mitch Cullin
Cinematography	Peter I. Chang Mitch Cullin
Edited by	Peter I. Chang
Music by	John Convertino
Distributed by	Workshop Lo-Vi
Release date	2008 (2008)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Japanese

In a review of the film for the U.K.'s Empire, critic David Parkinson noted, "As a street performer juggling knives is escorted out of a park by a combination of keepers and the police, Chang crosscuts between images of a nationalist rally and newsreels from the Tojo militarist era and draws some chilling similarities. He also makes striking contrasts between a variety of futurist objects and Tokyo's modernist architecture, with the segment seeming to conclude that the steel and glass structures in which citizens spend so much of their lives have reduced them to goldfish floating without much cognisance in an aimless existence."

Film festival screenings

Tokyo is Dreaming received its world premiere at the 5th Berwick Film Festival in 2009 and had its U.S. premiere at Phoenix Art Museum in May 2010.

External links

• Tokyo is Dreaming at Workshop Lo-Vi
• Tokyo Is Dreaming at IMDb