Mutsuyo was my roommate when I was still a student in New York. We happened to be from the same city, Kobe, and leaned that we went to schools very close to each other. We used to say how small the world is.

       Three years after we met, it was her who first called and informed me about the earthquake.  I had started working and living alone at that time. One day in January 1995, when I came home, I found a voice message telling me that Kobe is in disastrous situation.

     After countless attempts for over a day, I could reach my family on the phone, but Mutsuyo could not. Only element of dividing life and death was where they slept on that particular night. 

     This film is my search for an answer to many big questions about our little, precious, fragile lives.

 Kyoko Yokoma

About Kyoko

Kyoko was born in Kobe, Japan and lived, studied and worked in New York City, Istanbul and Toronto.

Having started her career as a print journalist in New York, Kyoko moved to create visual story telling after writing a story about NY 1 (a famous news channel in New York) and followed a video journalist for a day. Her first job in the documentary production was an intern for Jennifer Fox's An American Love Story, a flagship PBS series. Later, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey with her husband and co-produced Sun, Moon and a Star  in Turkey for CNN Turk. Then, she moved to Canada and worked in different positions in numerous documentary projects for CBC, History Channel, Vision TV, WTV, Life Network, etc. Recently, she was associate producer for Animania, a documentary on surging popularity of Japanese Anime among young North Americans. 

She holds B.A. in psychology and political science  and also studied media in New York.

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