Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI 山崎エマ
甲子園：フィールド・オブ・ドリームス
Nippon Docs ¾
Ema Ryan YAMAZAKI’s documentary accompanies two high school baseball teams on their way to the legendary Koshien tournament. Her focus is on the coaches, who try to improve the athletic skills of their players while also instilling moral values in them. Thus, the sport exemplifies the tensions between tradition and modernity in Japanese society.
About Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI
山崎エマ
Ema RYAN YAMAZAKI was born in Osaka to a British father and a Japanese mother in 1989. After graduating from New York University, she worked as an assistant for documentary filmmaker Sam POLLARD and began her career as a film editor. Her directorial debut was the feature-length documentary MONKEY BUSINESS: THE ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS GEORGE’S CREATORS (2017), which won the audience award at the Nantucket Film Festival. Her subsequent documentaries KOSHIEN: JAPAN’S FIELD OF DREAMS (2019 / NC ’21) and THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE (2023 / NC ’24) were screened at international film festivals.