ONE Asia Creative Awards
ONE Asia Creative Awards celebrates the best creative work of the year from the Asia Pacific region. Formerly known as the One Show Greater China Awards, which was founded in 2014 by The One Club for Creativity, the awards were established because of the tremendous growth and evolution of creativity in the Asia Pacific market. It presents an unparalleled level of prestige and honor for creatives, designers and innovators in the region. The awards are a fusion of culture where East meets West that brings the creativity of the region to the global stage.
A Train of Memories
Agency SIX inc. / Tokyo + good design company / Tokyo + Hakuhodo Inc. / Tokyo + Hakuhodo Kettle / Tokyo
Category
Writing
Annual ID
OA23_MI011M
Description
SOTETSU is a Japanese railway company operating entirely within Kanagawa Prefecture, which neighbors Tokyo, since 1917. It has been contributing to the wellbeing of local communities for over 100 years through railway operations and regional development efforts. In March 2023, SOTETSU established a direct through service to central Tokyo by connecting with the Tokyu Line, which had been a long-awaited dream since its establishment. Our mission was to promote the newly-opened link to families and potential families.
Our film follows the track of the father-daughter relationship evolving over twelve years as they commute to work and school on the same train on the Sotetsu Line. The entire story is set on a train and was filmed in one shot. As the daughter grows, she explores new social values, ventures beyond her family circle, and becomes distant from her father. The ever-changing father-daughter relationship throughout the years is styled as a seamless time-lapse sequence of 50 lookalike actors with train's winding movements to express the swaying emotions of the two. It reflects how life goes by in a succession of ordinary moments like an uncut one-shot film.
To portray the ever-changing relationship with a human touch and unique visual style, we focused on human-operated filming and tackled two ambitious challenges. The first is to film a time-lapse sequence of 50 actors in one shot instead of filming the same pair numerous times. We struggled to find 24 lookalikes for each lead actor from over 1000 actor agencies. The 25 pairs underwent extensive practice to perform the choreographed sequence. The second was to use a hand-powered train. We prepared 25 train car props and manually moved them to recreate a train’s winding movements and express the swaying emotions that the father and daughter experienced throughout the years. Outside the makeshift train, the lighting crew ran with light shades to recreate the play of light within the train.
Our film follows the track of the father-daughter relationship evolving over twelve years as they commute to work and school on the same train on the Sotetsu Line. The entire story is set on a train and was filmed in one shot. As the daughter grows, she explores new social values, ventures beyond her family circle, and becomes distant from her father. The ever-changing father-daughter relationship throughout the years is styled as a seamless time-lapse sequence of 50 lookalike actors with train's winding movements to express the swaying emotions of the two. It reflects how life goes by in a succession of ordinary moments like an uncut one-shot film.
To portray the ever-changing relationship with a human touch and unique visual style, we focused on human-operated filming and tackled two ambitious challenges. The first is to film a time-lapse sequence of 50 actors in one shot instead of filming the same pair numerous times. We struggled to find 24 lookalikes for each lead actor from over 1000 actor agencies. The 25 pairs underwent extensive practice to perform the choreographed sequence. The second was to use a hand-powered train. We prepared 25 train car props and manually moved them to recreate a train’s winding movements and express the swaying emotions that the father and daughter experienced throughout the years. Outside the makeshift train, the lighting crew ran with light shades to recreate the play of light within the train.
2023 Awards
Total Points: 2
Merit Award
Credits
Agency
Six Inc. / Tokyo
good design company / Tokyo
HAKUHODO / Tokyo
Hakuhodo Kettle / Tokyo
Production Company
Spoon. / Tokyo
Music / Sound Production Company
PIANO Inc. / Tokyo
Post Production Company
slanted / Tokyo
Art Director
Kei Kawabe
Creative Director
Yuta Okuyama
Director
Show Yanagisawa
Director of Photography
Ryoken Okamura
Executive Creative Director
Manabu Mizuno
Lighting Designer
Shin Takakura
Producer
Dai Sano
Hiromi Sato
Music Producer
Keisuke Tominaga
Stylist
Takeru Sakai
Agency Business Producer
Tomohiro Nagashima
Yuko Yuko
Saya Yamada
assistant director
Masahide Kimura
Hidenori Tsumoto
CASTING
Junko Suzuki
Keita Takasawa
Keita Nagahara
Reika Ueda
Kanon Katsura
Hiroto Horinaga
CG Director
Futoshi Yamauchi
CG Producer
Shinji Santoh
choreographer
Chiharu Shimura
colorist
Toshiki Kamei
Creative Planner
Yusuke Amagai
Yuki Yokoi
Creative Producer
Yukiko Mizuno
Kimiko Inoue
DIT
Kei Kimura
Hair and Makeup
Eito Furukubo
Hair Artist (beard)
Takaharu Arai
Lead Actor
Joe Odagiri
Ten Yamasaki
Lead CG Artist
Kazuki Otsuka
Mixer
Masayuki Sato
Music Artist
Punpee /
Offline Editor
Takashi Tanaka
Online Editor
Kenichi Sasaki
PR Planner
Sakura Okamoto
Production Designer
Yukiko Kuribayashi
Production Manager
Ryo Kamiya
Shintaro Yamashita
Koichi Hirao
Recording Mix Engineer
Shojiro Watanabe
Sound Effects
Yoshio Nakamura
Steadicam Operator
Takuma Iwata
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