blue Rinko Kawauchi

*This book is secondhand.

A photo book by Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.

This book was created in response to the 2003 live-action film adaptation of manga artist Kiriko Yumeno's 1997 feature-length manga "Blue." It features photographs taken by Kawauchi while accompanying the film on set.

The photographs, taken at filming locations such as the school and beach, feature lead actress Ichikawa Mikako, who won the Best Actress Award at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival as a result of this work, and portray the naive worldview of an adolescent girl who is mentally immature, from a perspective different from that of the film.