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Release Date:
January 1, 1963
Original Title:
The Soba Man
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A Japanese folktale of the Soba Man and a demon without a face blends into the present when Mirico attends a party for her white boyfriend. Japanese-American Mirico is made into an object of fascination to Dom's white friends at a party, unsettling her. She meets Chuck, the host of the party and learns that she resembles a past lover. Mirico shares eerie similarities with the lover and the girl in The Soba Man folktale.
Additional Photography:
John Vicario
Art Direction:
Gerald Mckibbon
Lorriane Morgan
Assistant Director:
Gary Wilmes
Camera Operator:
Don Sorenson
Ken Greenwald
Director:
Donald Wrye
Director of Photography:
Jorge Preloran
Editor:
Donald Wrye
Music:
Donald Hockett
Script:
Georgette Deveney
Sound:
Don Worthen
Unit Manager:
John Broderick
Writer:
Donald Wrye
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