Pray for Japan (2012)
- Directed by
- Stuart Joel Levy
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows survivors, school staff, volunteers, and a young musician after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It shows them living in shelters and working toward recovery, with a woman's poetry read between their stories.
soberintimatereflectiveresilientquietcompassionateearnest
What happens
Pray for Japan is a 2012 Japanese documentary film about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Stu Levy produced and directed the film. All of the crew, including Levy, volunteered to make it, and all of the profits from it will be donated to the non-profit organization JEN for their Tōhoku reconstruction projects. The film premiered in Tokyo on March 6, 2012, and showed for one night only in 15 North American AMC Theatres on March 14, 2012. The film moves between several perspectives, including survivors living in a shelter, a middle school staff, volunteers, and a young musician who lost several family members. A woman's voiceover reads poetry interspersed between these different perspectives. The overall effect is to show that despite the disaster, the survivors are moving forward with their recovery. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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