Tourism
Promotional release poster
Directed byDaisuke Miyazaki
Written byDaisuke Miyazaki
Starring
Release dates
  • November 11, 2017 (2017-11-11) (ArtScience Museum)
  • July 13, 2019 (2019-07-13) (Japan)
Running time
77 minutes
Countries
  • Japan
  • Singapore
Languages
  • Japanese
  • English
  • Malay

Tourism is a 2017 pseudo-documentary film written and directed by Daisuke Miyazaki.[1] An international co-production of Japan and Singapore, it stars Nina Endo as Nina, a Japanese part-time factory worker who, after winning free airline tickets, travels to Singapore with her friend Su (played by SUMIRE).[2]

Tourism was first screened at Singapore's ArtScience Museum in 2017, as part of the museum's "Specters and Tourists" exhibition.[2] The film had its international premiere at the Japan Cuts film festival on 29 July 2018,[3][4] and received a theatrical release in Japan on 13 July 2019.[2][5]

Cast

Release

Tourism was first screened at Singapore's ArtScience Museum from 11 November to 17 December 2017, as part of the museum's "Specters and Tourists" exhibition.[2] "Specters and Tourists" was a two-part film installation commissioned by the ArtScience Museum and the Singapore International Film Festival.[6][7][8] The first part of the installation featured scenes from other films directed by writer-director Daisuke Miyazaki, presented on multiple screens; the second part of the installation was Tourism.[6]

Tourism had its international premiere at the Japan Cuts film festival on 29 July 2018.[3][4] It received a theatrical release in Japan on 13 July 2019.[2][5]

Critical reception

Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave Tourism three out of five stars, calling it a "slight-but-likable road movie".[2] Film Pulse's Adam Patterson called the film "a pleasantly lowkey riff on alienation and materialism within a globalizing society shot in pseudo-documentary style, replete with quirky dance sequences, Snapchat filters, ghosts and a mysterious child narrator."[4]

References

  1. ↑ "宮崎大祐『TOURISM』インタヴュー" [Daisuke Miyazaki "Tourism" Interview]. Outside in Tokyo (in Japanese). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Schilling, Mark (10 July 2019). "'Tourism': Not quite the trip of a lifetime". The Japan Times. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Tourism". Japan Society. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Patterson, Adam (11 June 2018). "2018 Japan Cuts Announces Lineup". Film Pulse. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  5. 1 2 "型破り、自由に撮った旅 映画「ＴＯＵＲＩＳＭ」、宮崎大祐監督". The Asahi Shimbun. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  6. 1 2 "ArtScience Museum and Singapore International Film Festival co-present Specters and Tourists". Adobo Magazine. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  7. ↑ @ArtSciMuseum (October 31, 2017). "Seen through the eyes of #Miyazaki #SpectersAndTourists is a 2 part film installation we commissioned w/ @SGIFFest http://bit.ly/2z0Gs8h" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 October 2020 – via Twitter.
  8. ↑ @ArtSciMuseum (November 11, 2017). "Making plans for this weekend? We're thrilled to present #SpectersAndTourists a moving image exhibition by Japanese filmmaker #DaisukeMiyazaki in partnership w/ @SGIFFest. Our show opens today until December 17 and is absolutely free of charge! http://bit.ly/2m8f9DS #MBSxSGIFF" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 October 2020 – via Twitter.
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