2022 | Japan | Documentary,Short

The Floating World

  • Japanese English 15 mins
  • Director | Hiroshi Yokota
  • Writer | Hiroshi Yokota, Koji Yasumoto
  • Producer | Takahiro Hamano

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When a university student struggling with an environmental studies assignment searches for inspiration for an assignment at an art gallery, she is magically transported into a painting and lands in 19th-century Japan. In Edo, today’s Tokyo, she witnesses a range of everyday sustainable practices––using ashes in the dyeing process, fertilizing fields with night soil, repurposing used kimonos into towels and rags––that helped the country overcome environmental collapse.

Japan struggling painting art gallery environment
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