"Nippon" – Furuyashiki Village (Nippon koku - Furuyashiki-mura)

21 April, 2019 - 18:0026 April, 2019 - 18:00
CINEMATEK, Brussels

"Nippon” – Furuyashiki Village (Nippon koku - Furuyashiki-mura)

Ogawa Productions
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JP
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1982
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16mm
,
colour
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210'

When the members of Ogawa Productions settled in Magino, they heard about the "white south": a cold-air front from the Pacific Ocean that damaged the crops of the neighbouring mountain village of Furuyashiki. A few members moved to the hamlet for two years, where they conducted a rigorous investigation into the influence of climatic conditions on agriculture. At the same time they documented the stories of the villagers, which paint a picture of a Japan that is torn between tradition and modernization.