Inland Sea

The documentary was filmed in a town called Ushimado. The town is in Japan, on the shore of the inland sea. Wai-chan fishes there. He is eighty six and goes out in the boat alone. He thinks about retiring but cannot stop. Kumi-san is eighty four. She spends her days walking along the shore. She says her son was taken into a care institution. Koso-san keeps a small fish shop. The shop was left to her by her husband. She gives what is left over to the stray cats. Hardly any young people are left in the town. The account is built on observation. The camera watches the work of the day. Waichiro Murata and Kumiko Komiyama appear in the hundred and twenty two minute documentary, an American and Japanese coproduction Kazuhiro Soda finished in 2018.