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SANKA: NOMADS OF THE MOUNTAINS

SANKA

By Sasaki RYOHEI

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Drama - Completed 2022

In 1965, Japan is abuzz with the excitement of economic growth. Norio, a junior high student from Tokyo, visits his father’s remote family home and encounters a nomadic people known as “Sanka,” who wander from mountain to mountain without possessions or recognition by the government.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Epic, Second film
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 76 mn
- Director(s)
- Sasaki RYOHEI
- Cast
- Kiyohiko SHIBUKAWA, Rairu SUGATA, Naru KOMUKAI
- Synopsis
- The year is 1965. Norio, a 15-year-old resident of Tokyo who is being forced to study for entrance exams, is sent to his father’s family home in a mountain village for the summer holidays. There he meets a family of “Sanka,” a nomadic minority who wander from mountain to mountain without possessions or recognition by the government. Feeling strongly drawn to these people and their ways, he joins them as they go river fishing for char, eat snake, and live vibrantly in the midst of nature. However, he discovers that the Sanka must also live with discrimination and persecution, and that their mountain habitat is being destroyed in the name of development by his own father. As Norio struggles with his identity as the son of his new friends’ enemy, he takes a stand against this unjust reality.