Screening
Cinemes Girona
29-11-2025 / 20:00 h.
Film Information
Year: 2018
Duration: 122
Language: VOSE
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis
Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea (Japan). At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make a living, dreaming about his retirement. Kumi-san is an 84-year-old villager who wanders around the shore every day. She believes a social welfare facility “stole” her disabled son to receive subsidy from the government. A “late – stage elderly” Koso-san runs a small seafood store left by her deceased husband. She sells fish to local villagers and provides leftovers to stray cats. Forsaken by the modernization of post-war Japan, the town Ushimado’s rich, ancient culture and tight-knit community are on the verge of disappearing.
Director
Kazuhiro Soda (1,970 Tochigi Prefecture) is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker. He practices an observational method of documentary filmmaking based on his own “Ten Commandments” which prohibits him from doing any reasearch. He imposes these rules on himself in order to minimize preconceptions and to be able to make unexpected discoveries while filming. Among his works there is the documentary Oyster Factory (2015), which was premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2015. Inland Sea (2018), his seventh documentary, was selected for the Berlinale, the Cinéma Du Réel 2018, the Asian Docs 2018, the Shangái International Film Festival (SIFF) 2018 and the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN) 2018.
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