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JAPAN'S WILDLIFE: THE UNTOLD STORY

NIHON RETTOU

By Keizo IZUTA

TOHO CO., LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2012

From the 2-year-extensive footage of wildlife and the seasons, indigenous beauties of Japan come alive on screen like never before.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Keizo IZUTA
- Cast
- Masaki AIBA, Masami NAGASAWA, Gori (GARAGE SALE), Hitomi KUROKI
- Producer(s)
- Taka ICHISE
- Synopsis
- The Japanese Islands is an archipelago spanning 3,500 km from north to south, bridging both subarctic and subtropical climate zones. A unique country surrounded by water, blessed with abundant greenery, the beauty of its four seasons and an ocean teeming with sea life.
  Filmed over a span of two years, this documentary captures the hidden lives of a variety of species that inhabit the islands of Japan. The dramatic birth and subsequent separation of a mother monkey “Anzu” from her child “Medaka” in Shimokita Peninsula; the unique friendship that bonds the monkeys and deer of Yakushima; the fascinating lives of wild boars of Mt. Rokkou; the brown bears of Shiretoko Peninsula; the earless seals of the Northern Sea; and the red foxes of the Kushiro wetland. From this extensive footage emerges an emotional tale of life and maternal love - from the miracle of birth to childhood, and the eventual, inevitable moment of separation -.