きたなかスケッチ (2018)

Directed by

Tsukasa Kishimoto

Country

Japan

How it feels

In a small village in Okinawa, local young people try to keep a traditional performance art alive. A female manga artist struggles with a commission to draw a story about the area. The village elders insist on preserving the tradition exactly as it has always been done.

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What happens

『きたなかスケッチ』は、沖縄の小さな村、北中城村（きたなかぐすくそん）を舞台にした2018年の映画。 北中城村熱田の伝統芸能「ふぇーぬしま」を継承しようと奮闘する地元青年たちと、地元をテーマにした漫画の依頼に悩む女性漫画家と、あくまでも古いしきたりに則った継承しか認めない地元重鎮たちの織り成すハートフルヒューマンドラマ。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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