songs still sung: voices from the tsunami shorestsunami survivors in ofunato, iwate prefecture,...
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DOCUMENTARYFILMSCREENINGSongsStillSung:VoicesfromtheTsunamiShores
(2020,80minutes)SUBTITLEDINENGLISH
Time:March12,2020(Thu),8:00pmVenue:BookShopB&B(本屋B&B)
Shimokitazawa, Setagaya-ku, TokyoTobefollowedbyaQ&AwithdirectorYoiSuzuki,producerTakakoArai.
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SongsStillSung:VoicesfromtheTsunamiShores
AGIFTFROMTHEIRGENERATIONTOTHEFUTURE! AftertheTohokuTripleDisasterof2011,thepoetAraiTakakoledaseriesoftranslationworkshopswithtsunamisurvivorsinOfunato,IwatePrefecture,usingshortpoemsbytheearly20th-centurypoetIshikawaTakuboku.TakubokuwasfromIwate,too,buthewrotehispoemsinaliterarystandardJapanese.Workshopparticipantstranslatedhispoemsintotheirregionaldialect,called“Kesengo.”Acollectionof100Takubokupoemswiththeirtranslationswaspublishedin2017.Inthisdocumentaryfilm,acompaniontothebook,AraiinterviewsfivewomenfromOfunato,ages79to100,whohavesurvivedasmanyasthreetsunamiinthepastcentury!Theytalkabouttheirchildhoodmemories,theirfortitudeinthefaceofwarandnaturaldisaster,andtheextraordinarydepthofspokenKesengo.DirectorSuzukiYoi’srichpoeticsensibilityoffersavisionofhumanityinallitscomplexity,asthefilmweavestogethertheirTakubokutranslations,poetrybythewomenthemselves,andlocalsongs.Theirstoriesandtheirlanguagewillbecomeapartofeveryonewholistenstotheirvoices. •Director/Editor/Cinematographer:SuzukiYoi•Developer/Producer:AraiTakako•Featuring:KonnoSumino,MiuraFujiko,IwabuchiAyako,KinnoTakako,SaitoYoko,AraiTakako,andthepeopleofOfunato•Productionassistance:KinnoTakako,NakamuraSachiko,KonnoOwako•Developmentassistance:HiguchiYoshizumi,NakamuraSachiko•Titlecalligraphy:EnomotoRyoichi•Companionvolume:『東北おんば訳 石川啄木のうた』 (PoemsofIshikawaTakubokuintheVoicesofTōhokuGrandmas,ed.AraiTakako,Miraisha,2017)•Englishsubtitles:KendallHeitzmanandtheWorkshopinJapaneseLiteraryTranslationattheUniversityofIowa•Specialthanksto:Jugemutei(OfunatoCity,IwatePrefecture),MuseumofContemporaryJapanesePoetry,Tanka,andHaiku(KitakamiCity,IwatePrefecture),GraduateSchoolofHumanitiesandSocialSciencesatSaitamaUniversity,InternationalWritingProgram(IWP)attheUniversityofIowa•Specialthanksforthescreening(March,12)to:U.S.EmbassyTokyo