Fire Festival

Tatsuo is a lumberjack working in the forest. He lives in the Kumano region. He has his own kind of bond with the natural world. That bond carries something religious in it. Investment comes to the area. A marine park is to be built on family land. Tatsuo sets himself against it. The way he objects is harsh. He defends tradition, but his methods please nobody. He falls out with the people around him. The story starts from a real case. The writer Kenji Nakagami wrote the screenplay. Toru Takemitsu composed the music. The film won a Silver Leopard at Locarno. Kinya Kitaoji and Kiwako Taichi appear in the hundred and twenty five minute film, a Japanese production Mitsuo Yanagimachi finished in 1985.