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2016

Satouma no morikara

Working Horses in the Woodlands

里馬の森から

(c)Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

(c)Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

(c)Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

(c)Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

Release Date
March, 25th, 2016
Running Time
60 min
Genre
-
Color
Color
Screening Format
Blu-ray
Subtitle
,
Screening Format with Subtitles
English (Blu-ray)

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

GREEN IMAGE Film Committee, Kurikoma-Kogen, Natural Education and Earth Living Institute

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

[ Story ]

Documentary covering a year of the lives of people living with horses, an old-fashioned culture and lifestyle that hardly remains today.
People living with horses are a rare sight in present-day Japan. In northeastern Japan, the only remaining "bahan" (horse transport) specialists who use horses to haul trees from the mountains are a 74-year-old man and his 38-year-old apprentice in Iwate Prefecture. In Kiso, a breeding ground for indigenous Japanese horses, there used to be numerous households where people and horses lived under the same roof generation after generation, but old age and depopulation have forced people to get rid of their horses. Is there a future for people working alongside horses in Japan's village mountains?

[ Official Site ]

https://www.facebook.com/satouma

[ Contact (International) ]

For further contact details, please contact UNIJAPAN -> [ Contact ]

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