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Red Persimmons

Genres

Documentary

Duration

90 min

Director

Shinsuke Ogawa

Rating

8.0

Release Date

October 25, 2001

Red Persimmons

Original title: 満山紅柿

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Synopsis

The ostensible subject of this film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village’s persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away. The film’s larger subject, however, is the disappearance of Japan’s traditional culture, the end of a centuries-old way of life.