Programs
New Asian Currents
Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores
東北おんばのうたーつなみの浜辺で
Director: Suzuki Yoi
JAPAN 2020 80min
with English subtitles
Online Screenings
1st Screening Oct 09 [Sat] 10:00 -
- Running time
- Oct 09 [Sat] 10:00 - 11:20
- End of Streaming Time
- Oct 09 [Sat] 12:20
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- Q&A
- Oct 09 [Sat] 11:30 -
- Speakers (Subject to change)
- Suzuki Yoi(Director),Arai Takako (Producer),Kendall Heitzman (English subtitles translator)
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2nd Screening Oct 12 [Tue] 18:00 -
- Running time
- Oct 12 [Tue] 18:00 - 19:20
- End of Streaming Time
- Oct 12 [Tue] 20:20
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The town of Ofunato, three times prey to tsunami. Its women give the town voice, as poet Arai Takako, listens closely to capture their words. Japanese tanka (a form of classical poetry) and poems in the kesen dialect ring out with powerful and manifold resonance.