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Japan Hits Venice With Immersive Projects and Features as It Makes Inroads Into Global Co-Productions
Japan Hits Venice Production Bridge With Immersive Content, Features
”Among the projects in the Japan Focus, which VPB is presenting in cooperation with JETRO, is Kazuki Yuhara’s “First Virtual Suit.” Tokyo-based production house CinemaLeap calls it an “immersive interactive experience that utilizes MR and VR technologies.” Users will don a Meta Quest 3×4 headset to join the quest of a high school boy in near future Japan to find his own avatar — and discover who he really is through music and dance. CinemaLeap rep Tetsuya Ohashi explains that “First Virtual Suit” “has already re-ceived part of its total budget from Japan’s ministry of economy, trade and industry.” Knopf plans to incorporate fragments of a 1920s silent film by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu into the story of a young woman in contemporary Tokyo.
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