Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 10, 2025, 3 – 5:10 p.m.

The film was not merely a formal departure for its director, but a leap in subject matter as well. The confined spaces of domestic homes and urban streets are replaced with the sweeping horizons of rural Atsugi, where farmland meets mountains and open sky. Here, in a cavernous countryside farmhouse that evokes the homesteads of American westerns, a melodrama of colliding epochs plays out in patient, novelistic detail as the patriarch of a multi-generational peasant family, resists the shifting tides of modernization.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive / Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Cost: $10 - Regular Admission / $8 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard staff and Senior Citizens. Harvard students free.
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Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu
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