Tokyo in 33 RPM

A Tokyo jazz bar at night, lamps over a counter of bottles

東京三三回転で

Tokyo
in 33 RPM

A film by Tanmay Srivastava

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A feature documentary

The world of the film

Tokyo plays jazz, collects it, studies it, and listens to it like nowhere else.

Teaser

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Official teaserWatch on YouTube

A bassist smiling in a warmly lit room hung with paintings

The film

The people who keep the music alive.

Tokyo has one of the deepest jazz cultures in the world, built by listeners as much as by players. Musicians fill its stages, collectors fill its shelves, and across the city people still sit down to hear a record from the first track to the last.

Tokyo in 33 RPM moves between the stage and the record: the musicians who play it live today, the historians and collectors who trace how jazz took root in Japan, and the listeners who give it their full attention. There is no narrator. The film is carried by their voices and by the music.

Underneath it all runs one question: who carries this next?

Format: Feature documentary
Filmed in: Tokyo
Status: In production

A Tokyo street from above at night, traffic and signs

Outside

The city never slows down.

An empty listening room, a lamp over the counter and records on the shelf

Inside

A room waits for a record.

A record turning under red light, the needle down

Then the
needle drops.

Three ways into the music

On stage, on the shelf, and in the room.

A bassist's hands on a green bass — Play.The musicians who carry jazz on Tokyo’s stages today.

A young man listening in the low light of a bar — Listen.The listeners who give a record their full attention.

A collector pulls a record from floor-to-ceiling shelves — Keep.The historians and collectors who hold the story of jazz in Japan.

The director in conversation with a musician during filming

Director’s statement

“We will visualize sound.”

The music leads this film. Every scene is shaped by rhythm, memory and silence, and the camera’s job is to listen before it speaks.

I wanted to make something built from observation rather than intervention: to let a solo or a record play out, to stay with a face while it listens, and to trust the people who live this music to tell their own story.

Tanmay Srivastava, director

From the production

Stills

Tokyo in 33 RPM

東京三三回転で

Synergy Pictures UK presents in association with Double Drama Productions Lucky 18 latakoo

aTanmay Srivastavafilm“Tokyo in 33 RPM”

executive producers Lucas Minoru Poulshock Paul Adrian Jade Kurian

produced by Sky Cheema Tanmay Srivastava Jackson McKeever

directed by Tanmay Srivastava

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info@tokyoin33rpm.com

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