A Constant Visual Feast

“Tallying every movie, feature length or short, that’s fallen through the film industry’s cracks, never again to be seen, is a task that’d make Hercules balk. No matter how hard dogged restorers and intrepid cinema archaeologists try, they’ll never succeed in finding all of the films lost to time—a tragedy in the medium’s history and a loss for culture writ large.

So when a lost film is found, it’s cause for celebration, no matter its size, scope, style, or import. Even a work described routinely (and rightly) as “breezy” carries substance, like Tokyo Pop, director, writer, producer, and Tokyo-based film distributor Fran Rubel Kuzui’s 1988 musical romantic comedy, the recipient of a beautiful 4K restoration in 2022 and a theatrical re-release in August of this year.” (Full interview available at JoySauce.)