Nao Yoshigai’s nature-focused documentary isn’t so much a warning as to the dangers of climate change, but more an ode to a simpler life surrounded by nature in one of Japan’s more remote parts, notably the coastal town of Shari on the Shiretoko Peninsula in north east Hokkaido.
Shari is screening at Black Movie
Surrounded by lush white snow, Yoshigai narrates over shots of the stunning setting, in between interviews with locals as they go about their day-to-day lives. This includes a baker, fisherman, antiques collector and schoolchildren during a sumo wrestling class. Gradually, the town is visited by a strange being known simply as ‘Red Thing’, played by Yoshigai herself, whose playful, childlike nature enchants and scares the townsfolk.
The focus of the documentary has three key themes. Firstly, many of the inhabitants were not born in Shari, but settled there, enchanted by the natural beauty of the place.
Shari is screening at Black Movie
Surrounded by lush white snow, Yoshigai narrates over shots of the stunning setting, in between interviews with locals as they go about their day-to-day lives. This includes a baker, fisherman, antiques collector and schoolchildren during a sumo wrestling class. Gradually, the town is visited by a strange being known simply as ‘Red Thing’, played by Yoshigai herself, whose playful, childlike nature enchants and scares the townsfolk.
The focus of the documentary has three key themes. Firstly, many of the inhabitants were not born in Shari, but settled there, enchanted by the natural beauty of the place.
- 1/23/2023
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
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