Kazuko appears in this delightful and poignant short film as Mrs. Osida, an Osaka housewife on holiday in London.

Sidonie is a Swiss au-pair mooching around town on her day off, feeling broke and homesick. She finds herself rescuing Mrs. Osida, a middle aged Japanese tourist, from a diabetic coma. The grateful woman proposes buying lunch, but insists they must visit Buckingham Palace first. They never get there, spending the whole day lost instead in areas way off the tourist trail - Stamford Hill, Brick Lane, White City.

Filmed in richly textured black and white, these peripheral zones reveal an unexpected exoticism, populated by Australians, Ghanaians, Poles, Bangladeshis. With the only common language a few Queen lyrics (Mrs. Osida's karaoke favourites), the two women develop another form of communication, using Mrs. Osida's camcorder. The struggle for control of it, and the footage they both shoot - jazzy video colour that punctuates this monochrome journey - illustrate the growth of a peculiar intimacy and understanding. Both find they have something to learn from one another.

Sidonie SANDRINE BLANCKE
Mrs. Osida KAZUKO HOHKI
Mr. Osida EIJI KUSUHARA
Sidonie's employer SABINE TILLY
Shaven girl in boots SYREETA KUMAR
Bus driver NIGEL AIMEY
Tattooist DANIEL O'GRADY
Electrician HELENA BLAKER
Madman on bus GRAHAM HOWES
American tourist PATTY DALTON
Minicab driver ILARIO PEDRO
Hairdresser REBECCA NEILL
Mr. Osida's boss CECIL CHENG
Writer & Director NICK TURVEY
Producer ANNA DIS OLAFSDOTTIR
Executive Producers ANGELI MACFARLANE
CAROLINE HEWITT
Cinematographer IAN OWLES
Sound Recordist JAMES GODDARD
Production Designer CHARLES BOND
First Assistant Director DAVID HITCHCOX
Costume Designer MICHELLE CLAPTON
Dubbing Mixer NICK Le MESURIER
Editor NIVEN HOWIE
Original Music CASPAR KEDROS
Saxophone TREVOR IRVING
Violin YSANNE SPEVACK
Focus Puller PAUL KIRSOP
Clapper Loader OLIVER SCOTT
Gaffer/Stills GARRARD MARTIN
Grips JOHN LYNCH
LEE MARRIOTT
DAVE FERNANDEZ
Boom Operators STEPHEN GILMORE
PAUL SCOTT
Foley Artist LUCY FAWCETT
Foley Supervisor SANDY BUCHANAN
Assistant Art Director DOMINIC CHAD
Second Assistant Director STEPHEN CLARKE
Production Co-ordinator JAMES DeHAVILAND
Continuity MAGNEA GUNNARSDOTTIR
Location Managers GUY HOCKING
XEVI SOLER
Costume Assistant LOUISE JOHNSON
Wardrobe PERNILLA LINDFORS
Make-up Artist AMANDA SAGGERS
Runners ADNAN HEMANI
VICTORIA NOBLE
HELENA BLAKER
Camera equipment PANAVISION & JVC
Lighting equipment LEE LIGHTING
Filmstock KODAK
Laboratory METROCOLOR
Mixed at PINEWOOD STUDIOS

I Love London was completed in November 1995 and immediately purchased by the BBC, the most important programmer of new talent in the UK. The film was also selected by the First Film Foundation for the Panavision sponsored 'New Directions' programme, introducing young directors to the film industry in the US. The British Council have been taking the film around the world to film festivals, and ZDF purchased the film for broadcast in France and Germany. Enquiries from sales agents or distributors in other countries are welcome.