Peace

The documentary watches the daily life of people and cats in the city of Okayama in Japan. The camera makes no comment and offers no explanation; it only looks. Among the things that come into the frame are people caring for the elderly, cats moving about the house, and relations that swing between acceptance and refusal. The film does not ask directly what peace is or what living together rests on; it comes at those questions by showing the everyday. Life and death here are not two separate subjects but two things standing inside the same day. The account does not hide the one who is looking either; the camera stands like a guest who has come into the house. Kazuhiro Soda’s seventy five minute Japanese documentary was completed in 2010.