The Assassin’s Flower (2025) - Joanna Vymeris - short film

Joanna Vymeris directed the Assassin’s Flower at Toei studios in Kyoto as one of the final outcomes of the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab 2024. The film written by Nonoka Suzuki is a jidaigeki samurai film.

Credits below

Love and trust compel an assassin to confront the morality of his choices.

Credits

Supervisor Kiyoto Ando

Producer Ken Takahashi

Writer Nonoka Suzuki

Director Joanna Vymeris

Assistant Directors Kaz Cai, Nonoka Suzuki

CAST

Assassin Keisuke Nukanobu

Samurai Hiromi Sugawara

Ochiyo Chisato Ejima

CREW

DoP Christian Paolo Lat

Camera Assistant Miyu Ando

Lighting Director Hiroshi Yamazaki

Lighting Assistant Yuki Saito

Sound Recordist Yoshitaka Araki

Sound Assistant/Boom Operator Yuuka Tanaka

Production Designer Masayoshi Niwa

Art Director Vina

Props Kouzo Shima

Costume Director Hirotaka Koga

On-Set Costume Nonoha Katagiri

Makeup Masashi Kawada, Aki Yamada

Casting Shihomi Tsuchiya

Production Assistants Kimmy Nguyen, Rion Asai, Gen Dobashi

Sword Fight Co-ordinator Taketo Nakamura

Toei Kyoto Studio Staff Norimitsu Okihara, Katsuhiko Saegusa, David Wilson

POST PRODUCTION

Editor Ice Elloso

Dialogue Editor David Wilson

Foley Artist David Wilson

Sound Effects Editor David Wilson

Colourist David Wilson

Conform Editor David Wilson

Title Calligrapher Yuri Yamamoto

Composer Aviram Spies

THE KYOTO FILMMAKERS LAB

Museum of Kyoto Liaison Kiyotaka Moriwaki

Filmmakers Lab Liaison Atsuko Oya

Support Takeshi Yagi

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Kyoto Filmmakers Lab

Toei Kyoto Studio

Toei Kyoto Studio Park

Toei Company, Ltd.

Toei Kyoto Studio Co., Ltd.

Toei Actors School

Toei Kyoto Actor Club

The Museum of Kyoto

Toei Tsurugikai

Mie Tsuge

Soji Arai