Loading…Loading…Loading…We value your privacy
We use cookies and ads to keep CinEvo free. You can accept or decline personalized ads.
In February 2012, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo that was half destroyed by the tsunami of March 11th, 2011, to meet the disaster victims who now live in temporary housing. I spent several days in the North, under the snow, listening to these people talk candidly about what they had lived through, telling their own stories without the media as an intermediary. Their testimonies were terrifying, harsh and sad, but at the same time touching, sincere and human. From the pictures and interviews that I collected, I decided to make a film, not to reflect how awful the events were, but to communicate the singular and even surreal nature of each person’s experience. My intention wasn’t so much to focus on this particular event in Japan, but rather to make these stories more universal as a way of paying tribute to all the victims of natural disasters throughout the world.
February 19, 2013
Ecce Films
5 people
Kôichi Nakazato
Acting
Shigetsugu Gotô
Acting
Sumiko Abe
Acting
Yûji Ishimori
Acting
Hiroko Utsumi
Acting
2022
2013
2020
2000
2024
2021
2019
2019
2008
2022
2025
1968
2022
2013
1971
1979
2016
2022
1959
2026
2013
2019
1969
2002
2023
1957
1997
1894
1967
1955
2024
1955
1955
1954
2016
2025
2001
1943
2014