21 Up Japan (2007)

Directed by

Kimiko Fukuda

Genre

documentary television film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 13m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary checks in on thirteen Japanese people at age 21, having first filmed them at age 7 and 14. They talk about their families, their futures, and how their lives have changed since the last visit.

reflectiveobservationalpoignantrestrainedintimatethoughtfulnostalgicrevealing

What happens

21 Up Japan (Japanese: 7年ごとの成長記録　21歳になりました) is a 2006 television documentary film produced by Granada International and NHK. As an extension of the Up series, it follows thirteen children living in different parts of Japan by visiting them every seven years. In the third production of the "Up Japan" series they are asked to talk about their lives, families and future as on the previous two visits. Their circumstances are vastly different from each other. Some live in politically sensitive areas like Eri and Maki in Okinawa near a US military base, Sanae near the disputed Kuril Islands, while others like Yoshio and Mitsukatsu live with two different ancestral cultures. Some still live with their parents, while others live independent of their family, by or not by choice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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