SAMURAI SALESMAN (16mm, synch-sound, color, 25 minutes, Drama)
Written/Directed Masashi Nagadoi
The Cast
David Chung, Sandy Heidt-Okada, Hitomi Iwasaki
Executive Producers Masataka Tsuchida
Producers Kim Mitchell
Director of Photography Michael Cendejas
Film Editor Masashi Nagadoi
Music Composition Alan Lee Silvia
Casting Director Masashi Nagadoi
Film Festivals Gold Award
Worldfest-Houston
Finalist, Film Front National Student Film Festival
SYNOPSIS:

KEN YAGUCHI is an ambitious Japanese toy salesman. One day, he decides to leave his wife and son in Japan to pursue his dreams of riches and fame in Los Angeles. For weeks he tries to sell his traditional Japanese toys door to door. He is not successful. Finally the continuous harsh rejection becomes overwhelming and he finds himself alone on the beach, lost in despair. As he looks over the Pacific Ocean, he longs for his family and mourns his dreams which seem destined to never come true.

Soon a beautiful American woman, named JODY appears on the scene and offers him a ride in her red sports car. She invites him to her house, where she eventually proposes to him. Although everything seems to be happening too quickly, he sees a chance finally realize his dreams and to take a chance. In preparation for the wedding, she leaves the house to run errands. She tells him not open a special cabinet until she returns. He waits, and waits and waits, but she never comes back. Finally he can't take it anymore and approaches the forbidden cabinet. What he finds is not just shocking, but surreal.



 
Date Completed:
November 1, 1992
Produced at:
UCLA Graduate Film School
Category:
Short/drama
Original Format:
16 mm, Color film
Running Time:
24:58
Projection/Aspect Ratio: RATIO:1:1.33
Language: English
Video Format NTSC/VHS
Video Audio: CH 1&2 COMP
Finalist, Film Front National Student Film Festival


 
Ken Yaguchi
David Chung
Jody
Sandy Heidt-Okada
Sono, Ken's wife
Hitomi Iwasaki
Jiro, Ken's son
Brian Ito
Michael
Dean Ferraro
Michael's Mother Karen Chatelle