Satouma no morikara

Working Horses in the Woodlands

里馬の森から

(c)Environmental and Cultural Coordinating Organization

Release Date: March, 25th, 2016

Running Time: 60 min

Genre: -

Color: Color

Screening Format: Blu-ray

Screen Size: -

Sound Processing: -

Screening Format with Subtitles: English (Blu-ray)

[ Directed by ]

ODACHI Aiko

[ Produced by ]

ODACHI Aiko
KOIZUMI Shukichi ── Executive Producer

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

USHIJIMA Goro ── Cinematography
SUDO Kota ── Cinematography
OGURA Yu ── Cinematography
KUKI Eiji ── Cinematography
YAMAGUCHI Kenichi ── Photograph
USHIJIMA Goro ── Editor
ODACHI Aiko ── Editor
UZU Ruriko ── Desk
TSUKAHARA Maiko ── Desk
FUJITA Koichi ── Cooperation
Realrockdesign ── Cooperation
ISHIWA Setsu ── Cooperation

[ 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?