Silver Wheel (1955)
Silver Wheel (Bicycle in Dream) is a PR film that was produced to promote the export of bicycles. However, Matsumoto Toshio, who was an employee of the Shin-riken Pictures, which had been contracted to produce the film, asked for the cooperation of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Kitadai Shozo and Takemitsu Toru, at the time members of Jikken Kobo, and also invited the participation of Tsuburaya Eiji, the leading expert in the field of special effects. Therefore, this work depicts a young boy’s dreams concerning a bicycle, while making the most of the realistic and materialistic character of bicycle parts and of surreal and fantasy-like scenes. Due to the course of its production and the fresh images and music used, this was seen as being the first example of experimental cinema in postwar Japan.
Directors:
Genichiro Higuchi, Toshio Matsumoto, Masao Yabe.
Writers:
Toshio Matsumoto, 北代省三, 山口勝弘.
| Directing | Genichiro Higuchi | Director |
| Directing | Toshio Matsumoto | Director |
| Directing | Masao Yabe | Director |
| Sound | Toru Takemitsu | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Toshio Matsumoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | 北代省三 | Screenplay |
| Writing | 山口勝弘 | Screenplay |
| Art | 北代省三 | Art Direction |
| Art | 山口勝弘 | Art Direction |
| Crew | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects |
| Camera | Shuzaburo Araki | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hiroyoshi Suzuki | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
