12 Feb

2025

RELEASE

TUJIKO NORIKO

ECHOES ON THE HEM

Title: Echoes on the Hem

Label: Longform Editions

Catalog n°: LE166

Release: 12 February 2025

Format: Digital

BUY DIGITAL

15 Feb

2025

LIVE

Baden

Switzerland

ONE OF A MILLION FESTIVAL

Venue: Musikschule Burghalde

My set: 5.15PM

6 Feb

2025

LIVE

Colchester

UK

TUJIKO NORIKO / MIA ZABELKA

Venue: Colchester Arts Centre

Doors open: 7.30PM / Starts: 8PM

5 Feb

2025

LIVE

London

UK

1 Feb

2025

LIVE

Obersaxen

Switzerland

TUJIKO NORIKO / 400 TIGERS

Venue: Bündner Rigi

Starts: 7.30PM

27 Nov

2024

RELEASE

TUJIKO NORIKO

I’LL NAME IT TOMORROW

Artist: V.A.

Title: Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto “Micro Ambient Music” Vol. 4

Label: Commmons

Catalog n°: RZJM-77984

Release: 27 November 2024

Format: LP / Digital

BUY PHYSICAL / DIGITAL

29 Mar

2024

RELEASE

TUJIKO NORIKO

FROM TOKYO TO NAIAGARA (2024 EDITION)

Label: KeplarRev – Keplar

Catalog n°: KeplarRev17

Release: 29 March 2024

Format: LP / Digital

BUY PHYSICAL / DIGITAL

Lifetime #20 | KOKONI IRUYO ISSHO DAYO

Exhibited at Lafayette Anticipations

Online project from 26 Mar to 15 May 2020

KURO

A film by Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko

Kuro is now available for streaming on Vimeo On Demand

SYNOPSIS

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.

パリ郊外に住む日本人ロミはカラオケバーで働きながら、家では麻痺状態に陥っている恋人ミルーの面倒を見て暮らしている。ロミがミルーにお話を聞かせながら家での時間を過ごしていると、以前彼らが一緒に日本にいた頃の話題が発端となり、そこに登場する小野と呼ばれる男の謎が話をどんどん思わぬ方向に。自身の過去、伝説、奇談などを交えつつ、やがてロミのミルーへの一人語りは恐ろしいような、不思議なような、ただならぬ様相を帯び始める。

“Kuro is a film about our need for narrative to make sense of our lives. We were interested in how stories become a kind of architecture of our understanding of the world, as well as protection from what we fear and do not understand. However much we protect ourselves with stories, the ways in which we construct, use and interpret them are in constant flux. Perhaps our film is also about the ways in which narrative ultimately tries to articulate the unknowable and how in spite of this, the unknowable always returns to haunt us. We wanted to make a film that plays with, and at moments unhinges the mechanisms of storytelling, in order to produce a cinematic experience that allows for space and ambiguity for the audience to explore.”

— Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko

Directed by Joji Koyama, Tujiko Noriko

Cast: Tujiko Noriko, Jackie

Produced by Joji Koyama, Tujiko Noriko, Gilles Chanial

Director of photography: Joji Koyama

Music: Tujiko Noriko

Sound production: Coda to Coda

Audio supervisor: Tanya Auclair for Coda to Coda

Re-recording mixers: Will Worsley, Sam Britton, Steve Bond

Post-production: Time Based Arts

Colourist: Jack McGinity

Post-producer: Jo Chounta

Camera assistants: Elisa Franck, Antonin Le Guay

Sound recordists: Marc Thill, Stan Bertin

Graphic design and typeface: Dinamo

Photo by Chloé Fabre