26 May 1998
Silence
A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.
Inori
Director Pedro came to Japan in April 2011, started shooting in the village Totsukawa of Nara Prefecture. He, as Himotoku, began to spin the story with his camera instead of a brush…
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Sakae Hukui Tetsuo Yanase Shigehumi Kotani Noriko Ikeo Ryo Ikeo Yoshinisa Matsuba Toshiko Matsuba Tametoshi Iba Machiko Iba Okei Mori Yuriko Nakaminami Ryousuke Yokota 
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