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The Village

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Original title

Harakara (The Village)

Year

1975

Running time

127 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Yôji Yamada

Screenwriter

Yôji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama

Cast

Music

Kyôko Okada

Cinematography

Tetsuo Takahane

Producer

Shôchiku

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

The film is set in Matsuo, a remote farming village in Iwate Prefecture in northern Honshu. On a snowy March evening, a youths' association, made up of local twenty-somethings, is visited by Hideko (Chieko Baisho), representative of a non-profit, Tokyo-based theatrical troupe. Hideko proposes that the group sponsor a performance of their touring musical, "Native Village." Staging the single performance, as well as paying for the troupe's transportation and boarding expenses, isn't cheap. Hideko tells them frankly that costs will run about 650,000 yen (several thousand U.S. dollars). If the show loses money the youths' association has to make up the deficit. Though the group, led by its ineffectual president, Takashi (Akira Terao), takes an immediately liking to Hideko, it's also dubious of the huge financial responsibility. More than 800 tickets will need to be sold all in a tiny village of mostly rice farmers and unemployed miners.

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The Village

1975

Yôji Yamada