“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.
Camera | Gints Bērziņš | Director of Photography |
Directing | Māris Martinsons | Director |
Writing | Māris Martinsons | Writer |
Costume & Make-Up | Baiba Ladiga-Kobayashi | Costume Design |
Production | Linda Krūkle | Producer |
Production | Eiko Mizuno Gray | Producer |
Production | Jason Gray | Producer |
Production | Ilze Krūmiņliepa | Line Producer |
Production | Sten Saluveer | Co-Producer |
Production | Shoichi Takeuchi | Line Producer |
Sound | Osamu Kitajima | Music |
Editing | Māris Martinsons | Editor |
Art | Hidefumi Hanatani | Production Design |
Art | Aivars Žukovskis | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Makiko Goto | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Aija Beata Rjabovska | Makeup Designer |
Costume & Make-Up | Kumiko Fukushima | Makeup Artist |
Directing | Kiyoshi Inoue | First Assistant Director |
Directing | Ralf Siig | First Assistant Director |
Directing | Katrīna Tomašicka | Second Assistant Director |
Art | Jānis Bijubens | Assistant Art Director |
Art | Yurita Higuchi | Assistant Art Director |
Sound | Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis | Sound Director |
Sound | Ilvars Veģis | Sound Mixer |
Sound | Klāvs Siliņš | Sound Mixer |
Sound | Showa Matsumoto | Sound Mixer |
Sound | Robert Slezák | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Sound | Goro Koyama | Foley |
Sound | Jack Heeren | Foley Mixer |
Sound | Ludvík Bohadlo | Supervising Sound Editor |
Camera | Kaspars Cirsis | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Jurij Harchuk | Steadicam Operator |
Camera | Maris Grabovskis | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Yasuo Tani | Assistant Camera |
Lighting | Darius Zalmonas | Gaffer |
Camera | Roland Adamson | Focus Puller |