Film
Temple Family
2021 · 30m · Documentary
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.
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Overview
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
Crew
- Ema Ryan YamazakiDirector
- Shin YasudaProducer · Executive Producer
- Eric NyariExecutive Producer
- 杉江亮彦Executive Producer
- Shiori ItoDirector of Photography
- James Morimoto YuyaDirector of Photography
- Mariko IdeEditor
Details
- Release date
- June 26, 2021
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
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