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    Ashes to Honey

    Hitomi KAMANAKA 2010 Japan Documentary color 116min Japanese Digi Beta
    For 28 years, the people living on Iwaishima Island, which in the middle of the bountiful Inland Sea, have been against to the plan about building a nuclear power plant. The people on the island have preserved the traditional festival which has lasted for 1000 years. Takashi, the youngest on the island, is struggling to earn his living. He dreams of a life based on sustainable energy. Meanwhile, communities in Sweden are making an effort to implement such lives. The people living in the Arctic circle have taken action to overcome damage from the global economy. On Iwaishima, Mr. Ujimoto has begun sustainable agriculture by reclaiming abandoned farmlands. But the power company tries to fill in a bay to create a man-made land on
    Iwaishima. The people on the island sail to gather together to stop the construction of the nuclear power plant. A fight breaks out on the sea.

    Director

    Hitomi KAMANAKA

    Hitomi KAMANAKA Filmmaker. In 1990, she shot her first film Uncle Suecha and with the fellowship from the Japanese Culture Agency, she studied at the National Film Board of Canada. She then worked as a media activist at “Paper Tiger” in New York. After returning to Japan, she shot many documentary programs for television. Her Hibakusha—At the End of the World (2003) was screened at more than 400 places. In 2006, Rokkashomura Rhapsody (2006) was internationally screened at more than 650 places. She has been building up grassroots movement, with showing her film not just letting them go home but getting them involved by discussions.

    Hitomi KAMANAKA

    2003 世界的盡頭 Hibakusha―At the End of the World

    2006 六所村狂想曲 Rokkashomura Rhapsody

    2010 蜜蜂的拍翅聲與地球的回轉 Ashes to Honey

    Director／鎌仲瞳Hitomi KAMANAKA

    Producer／Shukichi KOIZUMI

    Cinematographer／Makiko IWATA, Seikou AKIBA, Kenji YAMAMOTO

    Editor／Kiyoshi TSUJII

    Music／Shing02

    Group Gendai Films Co. Ltd., contact: Kayoko WADA

    kayokow@g-gendai.co.jp

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