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Voices from the Waves Shinchimachi

Director
Sakai Ko
Hamaguchi Ryusuke
Info
2013 | 103min | color | HDV | Korean Subtitles

 

Synopsis

A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Kesennuma that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. It captures dialogues between closely-linked people in accordance with the directors' objective of passing on experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which is inspired by the folk tale tradition of the Tohoku region.
In Fukushima's Shinchimachi one year after the disaster, many victims seem to feel as if they owe a debt due to surviving the loss of their homes and loved ones. The directors decide they want to transmit the voices of these people to future generations one hundred years from now.

 

Director's Statement

Voices from the Waves is a continuation of The Sound of the Waves, which was produced in 2011. Following the same approach, it consists of interviews with survivors of the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake. Whereas The Sound of the Waves covers the large area from Iwate to Fukushima roughly six months after the disaster, Voices from the Waves focuses on two locations during the year that followed?Shinchimachi in Fukushima Prefecture and Kesennuma city in Miyagi Prefecture.

While conducting these interviews, we kept in mind that we didn¡¯t want to choose interviewees based how severely they had been affected, or how striking their experiences were. Many of the survivors we met told us there were people whose experiences had been even more horrific, and that we should speak with them instead?people whose lifelines stopped after the earthquake, people whose homes were damaged, people whose homes and loved ones washed away, people whose families were swallowed by the waves. The farther you are from this ¡®epicenter¡¯ of the disaster, the less you are able to speak. Even though our interviewees had also suffered, they seemed to feel a debt based on their lesser degree of suffering. If you were to seek that ¡®epicenter¡¯, you would no doubt end up seeking the voices of the dead. These voices can never be heard, and they stifle those who survived.
The 21 people who appear in this film do not only speak of the disaster. As they told their stories, their tone would shift to casual conversation. We do not only hear the voice of ¡®victims¡¯, but rather individual human beings. We thought it was important to keep these voices for 100 years in the future. After a century has passed, we will also be deceased, and the voices in this film will become voices of the dead. Our hope in producing Voices from the Waves is to connect the voices of our interviewees with those who vanished in the waves, who we cannot hear, at some point 100 years in the future.

 

Biography

Sakai Ko

Hamaguchi Ryusuke

 

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