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TORA-SAN OF GOTO

GOTO NO TORA-SAN

By Masaru OURA

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Family - Completed 2016


Festivals
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Galaxy Award 2015
Incentive Award
Fuji Networks System Documentary Grand Prize 2015
Grand Prix
Shanghai TV Festival 2016
Best Documentary
Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Award 2017
Documentary Film Grand Prize
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    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Family, Documentary
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 114 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Masaru OURA
    • Synopsis
    • Nagasaki City is two hours by plane and bus from Tokyo. Seventy miles further east of Nagasaki lies the Goto Archipelago. In the north of the archipelago, on the island of Kamigoto, Tora-san and his family live, making natural salt and Goto Udon. There are 9 people in his family, 7 children. We began following them in 1999. The father, Tora-san, has a personal motto: Train your own kids yourself. The children wake up every morning at 5 a.m. and help make udon for an hour before they go off to school. Tora-san says he wants them to learn important life lessons that they cannot learn at school. Each of the 7 children have their own feelings about this as they grow up. One rebels against her father and leaves home. One stays home and becomes a fisherman. Each child is different. The children growing up strong, their father growing old, the fights, sorrows, and joys shared by parents and children…a portrait of the changing generations of a family, woven together with the natural beauty and the festivals of Goto. How will this family live, how will they thrive, on this remote island? From when the youngest child is two to when he is 24, this documentary traces 22 years of one family’s history.
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