Peter Delpeut's last fictional feature is based on the life of pioneering Italian-British photojournalist Felice Beato (1832-1909). Beato's photographs of life in South and East Asia are among the most enduring records of the nineteenth century, and Delpeut concentrates on his life in Japan during the period it emerged as Asia's preeminent imperial power and the Lumières invented their projection machine. English subtitles available.