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OSHORIN

By Yoshihisa KODAMA

KADOKAWA CORPORATION - as SALES All rights

Drama - Completed 2023

95% of Japanese glasses are produced in Fukui Prefecture! It all started in the Meiji Era (1868-1912). the film depicts the fascination of "manufacturing" and the bond among the craftsmen who infuse their skills and souls into glasses, and the families who support them.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Yoshihisa KODAMA
- Writer(s)
- Erika SEKI
- Cast
- Kie KITANO, Win MORISAKI, Taro SURUGA
- Synopsis
- In 1904, Mume married Gozaemon
  MASUNAGA, the eldest son of the village
  headman of Asozu Village, Asuwa County, Fukui
  Prefecture, and spent her busy days raising
  children and keeping the house. One day,
  Kohachi, Gozaemon's younger brother returns
  home from Osaka where he has been working,
  and asks if the whole village can get involved in
  eyeglass production. He says that glasses are
  almost unknown today, but with the spread of
  print culture, they will surely become a
  necessity. If the project succeeds, it will help
  farmers who have no harvest in the winter to
  make a living. At first, Gozaemon is opposed to
  the idea, but when he sees a child with weak
  eyesight gets overjoyed wearing the glasses, he
  decides to take on the challenge and gathers the
  people of the village to open a factory.
  However, the glasses they had painstakingly
  finished were turned away by the wholesaler
  because they were "unsalable" then. They were
  also forced to take out a bank loan due to
  financial difficulties, and the brothers suffered
  setbacks time and time again. The brothers were
  repeatedly frustrated, but Mume who has a
  strong heart and never gives up on their dream
  believed in them, and she devotedly supported
  them. Encouraged by her, the brothers and the
  craftsmen take the "last gamble"...