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Temple Family (2021)
Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki
“Follows an 800-year-old family-run temple in Kyoto as it struggles to balance tradition with progress in order to thrive in the 21st century.”
Documentary · 30m
The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would seem to belie its long history. But in order for the family-run temple to thrive in the 21st century, it must continue to reinvent itself. Intimately following future head priest Scion (30) along with his fiancée Haruka and firstborn sister Ariya, critically-acclaimed director Ema Ryan Yamazaki captures one unexpected corner of Japanese society's struggle to balance tradition with progress.
Cast
Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Crew
- Director
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki
- Director of Photography
- Shiori Ito, James Morimoto Yuya
- Editor
- Mariko Ide
- Producer
- Shin Yasuda
Details
- Original title
- テンプルファミリー
- Release date
- 2021-06-26
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan, United States of America
- Production
- Cineric Creative, NHK