Tujiko Noriko
Writing
Biography
Tujiko Noriko is a Japanese musician, actor and director, from Osaka. She has released music on the Austrian label Mego and the German label Tomlab, among others. Much of her music is composed on a laptop and consists of layered samples, electronic beats, keyboards, and vocal melodies. Her lyrics are in Japanese and English. She is currently living in Paris and is also working on experimental short films.
Known For
A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.
Surge
Romi, a Japanese woman living in Paris, works in a karaoke bar. At home in the suburbs, she tends to her paraplegic lover Milou. To pass the time she recounts to him a story alluding to a period they once spent together in Japan. Soon, the mystery of a man named Mr. Ono begins to unsettle everything. Weaving together personal history, anecdotes and myths, the story takes a dark turn.
Kuro
As the world is engulfed in abnormal heat due to the influence of the dying, bloated sun, the daily life of a Vietnamese girl who has fled to France and the French siblings in whose house she lives while working as a cleaner. “I'd rather melt away and die in the sun than go off to some other planet!” (Tujiko Noriko)
SUN
Narrated in Japanese with inner landscapes, this unique debut work by Noriko Tsujiko depicts the daily life of Chloe, a French woman, set against the backdrop of Marseille!