Oni ni kike Miyadaiku Nishioka Tsunekazu no yuigon
An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
- Release Date
- February, 4th, 2012
- Running Time
- 88 min
- Genre
- Drama , Children/Family , Historical , Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- Blu-ray
- Screen Size
- HD (16:9)
- Sound Processing
- Stereo
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- TADA Shuhei ── Cinematography
- IMAOKA Hiroyuki ── Editor
- SAHARA Kazuya ── Music
- ISHIBASHI Renji ── Narrator
[ Production Company ]
UZUMASA
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
UZUMASA
[ Story ]
In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the gargantuan timescale of linking life to the next millennium emerges from people who knew him. Remarkable as well for showing the unknown backstage of temple architecture.
Nishioka, known as "the last temple carpenter," handled the major Showa-era repairs of Horyuji temple, and in 1990 was at the scene of the reconstruction work for Yakushi temple. But he is unable to procure the 1,000-plus-year-old Japanese cypress necessary for the building in Japan, and heads for Taiwan…
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