Home from the Sea

Seichi and Minko live on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea. They make their living hauling rock. They load it onto a boat and take it out to construction sites. The work is heavy and the money is thin. Even so they will not give up this piece of land or this life. The island is home to them. But the country is industrialising fast. Making a living this way becomes impossible. In the end they have to leave their hometown. They set out to look for a better future somewhere else. The place they left does not leave their minds. They dream of a day when they might go back. Yoji Yamada is describing a way of life that is disappearing. Chieko Baisho and Hisashi Igawa appear in the ninety six minute film, a Japanese production Yamada finished in 1972.