An 84-year-old villager who wanders the shore, sharing stories and personal grievances. 'Inland Sea' ('Minatomachi'): Film Review | Berlin 2018
(internationally released as Inland Sea ) is a 122-minute black-and-white documentary directed by Kazuhiro Soda . Premiering at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival , it serves as the seventh entry in Soda’s "Observational Film" series. Core Premise and Setting Minatomachi(2018)Kazuhiro.Soda
An elderly, energetic fishmonger who shuffles through the streets hawking the daily catch to local villagers. An 84-year-old villager who wanders the shore, sharing
The film is set in , a small, rapidly aging fishing village in the Seto Inland Sea of Okayama Prefecture. It poetically captures the "twilight days" of a community on the verge of disappearance due to extreme depopulation and modernization. The documentary focuses on several tenacious residents: Core Premise and Setting An elderly, energetic fishmonger
An 86-year-old fisherman who still takes his boat out daily despite a precarious livelihood and no successor.