Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Presents: 35.4 °C / The New God
Nippon Digital ½
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF), founded in 1989, has become one of the most important documentary film festivals. Today, 25,000 visitors make the pilgrimage to Yamagata every October to see the latest developments in documentary film and to exchange ideas with the many invited guests. Asako FUJIOKA has been a member of the YIDFF program committee since 1995 and presents at Nippon Connection some documentary films specially selected for the festival. (automatically translated with DeepL)
Guests:
Asako FUJIOKA
Miwa TANAKA 田中見和
35.4 °C
A sensitive look at the indecisive feelings of a young girl thinking about her love relationships.
Yutaka TSUCHIYA 土屋豊
The New God
新しい神様
Karin and her “comrade” Ito have started a band, playing nationalist punk music. Left-wing filmmaker TSUCHIYA decides to give Karin a video camera to film herself and her daily life. Camera on board, Karin travels to North Korea and meets former Red Army terrorists who fled from Japan thirty years ago.
新しい神様
Atarashii kamisama
Japan 1999
99 minutes
About Yutaka TSUCHIYA
土屋豊
Yutaka TSUCHIYA, born in 1966, founded VideoAct! in 1998, a distributor of independent political films. His documentaries often aroused the (not harmless) ire of Japanese nationalists.