Adaptation of Rjunoszuke Akutagava’s short story: Handkerchief Ever since I’ve been working with fi lm, I’ve always been bothered by the extreme concreteness of the film picture. This aspect excites the imagination but does not allow it to take wing. The picture appearing in the photo-fi nish camera never existed in reality. And so, in contrast to the traditional mode of recording pictures, they don’t wish to project the illusion of reality. Here we try to tell a story using a device detached from all actual experiences.