Akai tasuki Tomioka seishijo monogatari

Cocooning

紅い襷~富岡製糸場物語~

Trailer

(c)2017 Tomioka City/Tomioka Silk Mill Film Partners

Release Date: December, 2nd, 2017

Running Time: 100 min

Genre: Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: DCP

Screen Size: -

Sound Processing: -

Screening Format with Subtitles: English (DCP, Blu-ray)

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

IEKI Masao

[ Cast ]

MIZUSHIMA Yu ── YOKOTA Ei
YOSHIMOTO Miyu ── Tsuru
TOYOHARA Kosuke ── SHIBUSAWA Eiichi

[ Staff ]

MATSUI Kana ── Screenplay
TANIKAWA Kensaku ── Music
TAKAMA Kenji ── Cinematographer
UWABO Masamichi ── Lighting
PAL Entertainments Production ── Associated Production Company

[ Production Company ]

Tomioka City

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

PAL Entertainments Production

[ Production Studio ]

NHK ENTERPRISES, PAL Entertainments Production

[ Story ]

A drama focusing on the World Heritage Site, Tomioka Silk Mill, and the dawn of Japan's silk industry legacy. Set in Gunma Prefecture during the early Meiji Era, the film depicts efforts of young women who supported the modernization of Japan.
In the sixth year of the Meiji Era, Yokota Ei (Mizushima Yu), the daughter of the mayor of Nagano Prefecture's Matsushiro Ward, sways her resistant father and joins the Tomioka Silk Mill as a factory girl. These women dream of learning technical skills, advancing to become first-class factory girls who wear a red sash cord to bind up their kimono sleeves, and returning to their hometowns. However, the rigid training of the French teacher and the hardships of silk manufacturing seem endless.