Cast Natsuko, Raiku
Director/Cinematographer Kyotaro Hayashi
Original Author/Screenwriter Chisai Hasebe
Florist Yasutaka Ochi Music Yuzo Hayashi
Art Director Yumi Kurotani Stylist Naomi Shimizu
Hair & Make Rumi Hirose
Producer Keiko Iino Assistant Director Masaru Ito
Cinematographer Daisuke Sakurai Lighting Director Naoto Tanoue
Sound Designer/Mixer Showsuke Asada Casting Keita Nagahara
VFX Yoshifumi Hashimoto 1st Assistant Camera Ken Yamamura
Key Grip Takuma Yuki Chief Lighting Crew Yo Kumekawa
Set Builder Isamu Ikeda Florist Assistant Fumika Urata
Production Sound Mixer Shuhei Kuroda Production Manager Dante Kuwashima, Iroha Fukaya
Management Hana Usami, Hirotaka Yamazaki Special Thanks Hana KondoProduction Flip-book Inc.
Sponsorship Canon Marketing Japan Inc. Daisuke Yahagi
Director/Cinematographer Kyotaro Hayashi
Filmmaker / Photographer
After graduating from the Department of Information Design, Tama Art University, he joined DRAWING AND MANUAL.
Major video works include HONDA Heart, ISSEY MIYAKE collection video, and SHISEIDO.
For music videos, he has worked on "Pop Virus," "Ain't Nobody Know," and "Fushigi" by Gen Hoshino, "Machigai Sagashi,"
"Thank you KAMISAMA," and "Last Scene" by Masaki Suda, "Nanairo" and "Aurora" by BUMP OF CHICKEN, "Your Song" by Mr. Children, and others.
He also supervised the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, and the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) 8th-anniversary promotion in Shanghai.
https://www.kyotaro.org/
Original Author/Screenwriter Chisai Hasebe
Author
She has written essays, short stories, screenplays, and advertising copy on the themes of fashion, music, perfume, film and travel.
Her books include The Scent of You I Love (私が好きなあなたの匂い) and Memorandom (メモランダム) , both published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, and Vivre Sa Vie (有閑マドモワゼル) published by Kobunsha.
She is chief editor of the web magazine "MEMORANDOM".
https://hasebechisai.com/
The short film Prelude was written as a prologue to the book The Scent of You I Love, a collection of short stories with "scent" as its motif.
With images by Kyotaro Hayashi, a dialogue by Chisai Hasebe, and performances by Natsuko and Raiku, the film depicts an evening in the lives of a man and a woman working in a flower shop.
Flower arrangements by Yasutaka Ochi.
Further films based on short stories from the book The Scent of You I Love are planned for the future.
私が好きなあなたの匂い
Written by Chisai Hasebe
Scents bring back the time with someone and small memories…
Chanel, Hermès, Chloé, Givenchy… real perfumes
inspired 35 sweet and bittersweet short stories.
The original Japanese version is published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha.