Film

Silver Wheel

1955 · 12m

IMDb

7.8

Silver Wheel (Bicycle in Dream) is a PR film that was produced to promote the export of bicycles. However, Matsumoto Toshio, who was an employee of the Shin-riken Pictures, which had been contracted to produce the film, asked for the cooperation of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Kitadai Shozo and Takemitsu Toru, at the time members of Jikken Kobo, and also invited the participation of Tsuburaya Eiji, the leading expert in the field of special effects. Therefore, this work depicts a young boy’s dreams concerning a bicycle, while making the most of the realistic and materialistic character of bicycle parts and of surreal and fantasy-like scenes. Due to the course of its production and the fresh images and music used, this was seen as being the first example of experimental cinema in postwar Japan.

• Masao YabeDirector
• Toshio MatsumotoDirector · Screenplay
• Genichiro HiguchiDirector
• 北代省三Screenplay
• 山口勝弘Screenplay
• Shuzaburo ArakiDirector of Photography
• Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
• Hiroyoshi SuzukiOriginal Music Composer
• Toshirō MayuzumiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

January 1, 1955

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

12m

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