MILK

Feature Film, TOKYO/ NEW YORK / VIENNA 1997 / 102 min

What happens when GREEN TEA meets MILK? Find out as four young urban nomads find themselves in TOKYO – a city spinning with pop culture and ancient traditions. Follow a quirky Austrian artist drawn to an offbeat Japanese woman he met at NEW YORK’s Chelsea Hotel and a mysterious monument he discovers in Tokyo. The young Japanese woman finds freedom in the role of an elevator girl, where her many choices are reduced to “up” and “down”. A radio english teacher from New York who falls in love with a rogue salaryman. Spirits live, CULTURES CLASH and twains meet in this hip, atmospheric, and truly original film.

102 min, 35mm
New York / Tokyo / Vienna, 1998

starring Serge Pinkus, Yukika Kudo, Sherri Weiner, Oshio Hideki, Yamamoto Kenij, Lucas Reiner
written by Leza Lowitz, Edgar Honetschläger
cinematography Hiroki Miyano
sound Eiji Tamura
editor Kurt Hennrich
line producer Melissa Waldron
producer Markus Fischer
co-producer/director Edgar Honetschläger
production companies Fischer Film / OSY Tokyo
premiere at the Berlinale

realised with the help of the Ministry of Culture Austria, ORF, Kulturland Oberösterreich, JEC FUND OSAKA, Japan Foundation

Please find a trailer and the film below:

For every movie I do hundreds of drawings. They are not storyboards as they are being done after filming. Arranged and rearranged on a wall they help to find out how to edit the movie.
Below what Donald Richie had to say about MILK.

Focussing on his considerable gift for kinetic observation and arresting composition on locations in New York and Tokyo, first-time helmer Edgar Honetschläger treats viewers to cinematic interludes that excite the imagination and tickle the funny bone. (VARIETY) https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/milk-4-1117340125/

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