Kazuhiro SODA
Inland Sea
港町
Nippon Docs ¾
Ushimado is a small, tight-knit village in Japan slowly dying out. 86-year-old Murata takes his boat out every day and dreams of peace. Kumi-san, an 84-year-old woman, walks the beach every day and tells stories about her disabled son. Koso-san keeps up her deceased husband’s fish business, giving the leftovers to the village cats who seem to truly rule the island. This “observational documentary,” the seventh by Kazuhiro SODA, is a touching and poetic depiction of a village in its twilight days.
港町
Minatomachi
Japan, USA 2018
122 minutes
Director
Kazuhiro SODA
Script
Kazuhiro SODA
Production
Laboratory X
World sales
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About Kazuhiro SODA
Kazuhiro SODA was born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1970 and studied at Tokyo University as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he now lives. His first documentary feature, CAMPAIGN (2007), was shown at various international festivals, including the Berlinale, and ever since then his later films have regularly premiered at festivals around the world.