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With a sensitive and authentic eye, Tomita captures the melancholy and strength of a community, incorporating into the film the real lives of those who sing and dance to forget their pain.

Construction workers, immigrants, and hip-hop. What is the reality in rural Kofu!?

With its streets lined with shops closing down one after another, the city of Kofu is facing the risk of extinction. This is how the media has portrayed as being the reality of rural Kofu. However, not everyone has abandoned it. Where have they gone to, then?

After spending more than a year doing research about Kofu’s current situation, filmmaker Katsuya Tomita got to know the Japanese-Brazilian diaspora, Thai and other Asian low-wage labourers, and short-term contract workers. What he saw there was the reality of people working under tough circumstances, and their struggle for “life” in rural Japan.

Offering a glimpse into the exhilarating world of Japanese artists’ moving image, ‘Engawa Films’ seeks to stake a place for its existence in Japanese contemporary art and cinema.

The tickets for this screening should be bought at Cinemateca Portuguesa

Duration: 167 min.

Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan

‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info


Biographies


Credits

Curatorship

Julian Ross

Production

KUZOKU

Executive Producer

Takayuki Sasamoto

Producers

Kotaro Date and Satomi Tomita

Director

Katsuya Tomita

Screenplay

Toranosuke Aizawa and Katsuya Tomita

Cast

Tsuyoshi Takano
Hitoshi Ito
Dengaryu (from stillichimiya)
Deejai Paweena
Ai Ozaki
Chie Kudo
Dennis Oliveira de Hamatsu
Ieda de Almeida Hamatsu
Yusuke Noguchi
Shinji Murata
Tomohito Nakajima
Yota Kawase
stillichimiya (Young-G, Big Ben, MMM, PONY, mestar, KTY, maro)
Fabio Yuji Mori
Fabio Shimazaki

Cinematography

Yoshiko Takano

Sound

Iwao Yamazaki

Assistant director

Kentaro Kawakami

Editors

Katsuya Tomita
Yoshiko Takano

Still Photographer

Ikuko Hirose

Production designer & art director

Hiroshi Imamura

Partnership

Collaboration

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