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The Reality Behind What We See (2018)

The Reality Behind What We See poster
Directed by
Haruo Inoue
Genre
documentary film
Country
Japan
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary follows Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu as he travels through Kyoto across four seasons. He works to recover language lost after the Great East Japan Earthquake and gradually composes a new poem.

contemplativeintrospectivepoeticmeditativeslow-pacedreflectiveartisticwistful

What happens

『幻を見るひと〜京都の吉増剛造〜』(まぼろしをみるひと~きょうとのよしますごうぞう~、英題:The Reality Behind What We See)は、井上春生による日本のドキュメンタリー映画。 現代日本を代表する詩人・吉増剛造が四季の京都を訪れ、東日本大震災で失った言葉を回復し、一篇の詩を紡ぎ出すまでの心の旅を描く。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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