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About

3 Old Gods is a short movie made in collaboration with I-media college of Niigata.
The story takes place in contemporary Japan. 3 gods walk down the mountain and meet in town for having a drink and talk about the old days.

Directed by Atelier Sentô
Scenario: Josh Tierney
Cast: Kôsuke Baba, Wataru Tsumoto, Yasuo Gondaira and Aida Hisako
Staff: I-media college students
Release date: 2012
Time: 14:23
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, French



a short film shot in Japan

3 Old Gods is a short film about three supposed, forgotten Japanese gods — or perhaps they're just crazy old men.

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Making of

3 Old Gods was made with no budget, thanks to the generous help of I-media college students and volonteer actors.

Still photographs

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Original soundtrack by Giannis Milonogiannis

music album

SLOW ROCK

The original soundtrack of 3 Old Gods come from Slow Rock, an album composed by the greec artist Giannis Milonogiannis.

Access to the complete album on he artist's bandcamp page: https://returningasechoes.bandcamp.com/album/slow-rock

Listen to the tracks used in the film:






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Ending music by Yoo-hoos

osaka music band album

Yûyake

The end title song "Yûyake" (ゆうやけ) was composed by the Osaka band Yoo-hoo (ヤッホーズ). It comes from the album "Spoon.Fork" (スプーン.フォーク) available on the official website of the band:
http://music.geocities.jp/yoo_hoos_space/cd.html

Access to the soundcloud of the band to listen more songs:
https://soundcloud.com/yahhoz


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CREDITS

Directed by Atelier Sentô
Scenario: Josh Tierney

Cast 
Kosuke Baba – 1st old man
Wataru Tsumoto – 2nd old man
Yasuo Gondaira – 3d old man
Hisako Aida – Waitress
Masayuki Tsuchida – Salaryman
Miwa Neishi – Young woman
Naoto Nagino – Young man

Staff from I-media college 
Sound recording: Kentaro Inamura
Boom operator: Risa Uemura
Lighting: Kazuma Miyano
Assistant director: Fumiya Hazama
Hironori Takahara
Motoharu Honda
Naoto Torigoe
Kenji Sekiya

Calligraphy : Yasuhiro Tabuchi

Places
Yahiko village, Yu temple, Mount Yahiko store, Yorozu an tea shop, Niigata city, Niigata Uchino station

Special thanks
Tao Nashimoto, I-media College, Chloé Viatte, Tatsuo Henmi, Martine Tsumoto, Mae Kobayashi, Chizuko Kobayashi, Sumie Bana, Suguru Tanaka, Laurie Placin, Benoit Loridant, Ken Tsumoto