TOKYO-EBISU
EUTERPE • 5m 6s
JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of twenty-nine stations and running as a loop. TOKYO-EBISU shows the views from the platforms of ten stations in Yamanote Line, from Tokyo Station to Ebisu Station clockwise. The in-camera visual effects and the layered soundtrack might exaggerate the sense of the actual happenings at these locations as the film itself exhibits the shooting and recording methods.
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