Trivia for
Kairo (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• The shot of a woman leaping off the side of a building is a relatively simple combination of careful editing, computer graphics, and stunt work. As director Kiyoshi Kurosawa explains it, a stunt-woman was filmed bungee jumping off the rooftop, followed by a dummy dressed in the same clothes; the two shots were edited together and the bungee cord digitally erased.
  
  
• The Japanese title written in Mandarin means "the road back".
  
  
• Director Cameo: ['Kurosawa Kiyoshi'] While Kawashima is looking at the various people moping around in some catatonic state via web cam, there is one man who appears to be sleeping on his desk. He then wakes up, raises his head, and looks straight into the camera, facing us. That man is Kurosawa Kiyoshi, writer and director of this film.
  
  
• A large number of scenes were shot from windows.
  
  

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