WOWOW's "Movie Traveler" France edition starts in August (full comment)

It has been announced that WOWOW's movie information program " Kento Nakajima Movie Traveler," hosted by Kento Nakajima , will be broadcasting and streaming a "France Edition" from August. The 9th episode, the first of the France Edition, will be pre-streamed on WOWOW On Demand at midnight on August 1st, and will be broadcast on WOWOW Prime at midnight on August 10th.

The program, which has a theme of "Movies and Travel," sees Nakajima travelling around the world to talk to filmmakers representing each country and region to get to know the current state of world cinema. This time, he will be travelling to the "City of Flowers," Paris, France.

France has a history of inventing the cinematograph and producing the world's first science fiction film, and is known as the "birthplace of film." It is also home to the Cannes Film Festival, one of the world's three major international film festivals, and has been the location for many films. Nakajima visited the highly competitive film school La Fémis to explore French films, which are the origin of film and hold the future of cinema. Together with Hata Akihiro, the first Japanese student to enroll and who has worked as a director and actor since graduating from the directing department, Nakajima observed classes and interviewed current students and the school president.

We also interview Anne Seibel, a production designer who teaches at the art department and was nominated for the 84th Academy Award for Best Art Direction for "Midnight in Paris." We also talk about Anne's passion for film, who has worked on films by world-famous directors such as Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood, and the future of French cinema.

At the Méliès Museum, which displays the history of French cinema, Nakajima is shown getting very excited about the cinematograph, which was invented by the Lumiere brothers (Auguste and Louis), known as the "fathers of cinema," and the original storyboards for "Star Wars." The video also shows Nakajima visiting tourist spots such as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, making a pilgrimage to the holy sites of films that were shot in Paris.

The narration is by Kenjiro Tsuda. Broadcast and distribution information for episodes 10 and beyond will be released at a later date.

◇Comment from Kento Nakajima

It was a wonderful place where delicacy and style mixed together. I visited La Fémis, a famous film school in the film world, and everyone there was really thinking about the future of French films.

Also, Le Grand Rex, one of the largest cinemas in Europe, is very prestigious and I thought it would be great to not only do a stage greeting there but also a live performance there someday. The Méliès Museum is also truly wonderful, and as someone who writes storyboards for live performance footage, it felt like I had now found a senior in the film industry in France.

The townscape was arranged like a scene from a movie, and the scenery in a French movie had a richness like wine, and there were various ways to taste it. Please also pay attention to my pilgrimage to the holy land of the "Before" series, one of my favorite movies, and my Keanu acting at the location of the "John Wick" series.