The village of my dreams
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The village of my dreams |
| Original title | 絵 の 中 の ぼ く の 村 E no naka no boku no mura |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yōichi Higashi |
| script | Yōichi Higashi, Takehiro Nakajima |
| production |
Koshiro Sho , Tetsujiro Yamagami |
| camera | Yoshio Shimizu |
| occupation | |
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The Village of My Dreams ( Japanese絵 の 中 の ぼ く の 村E no naka no boku no mura ) is a film by the Japanese director Yōichi Higashi from 1996 . It is based on an autobiographical story by Seizo Tashima .
action
Yukihiko Tashima visits his twin brother Seizo, a picture book author known in Japan. The two reminisce about their childhood in a Japanese village in the late 1940s .
Seizo and Yukihiko are two adventurous boys who love to play pranks on their math teacher and grandfather. Her mother Mizue is a teacher herself, but is understanding of the behavior of her children and encourages both of them to draw. She selects the drawings by Seizo and Yukihiko for a competition and is criticized for it by other parents and students.
When the twins want to fish, Yukihiko almost drowns and believes he sees the river god in the form of a fish underwater. Seizo the almonds are taken out. Both make friends with the outsider Sensji Nakai, who shows them a conch shell in the forest , and are popular with the girls.
During this time they are mostly observed by forest spirits who talk about the twins and other villagers.
Reviews
Peter Stack compared the film in the November 26, 1997, issue of the San Francisco Chronicle to the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and described it as "weird" and "nostalgic" . Although Higashi's approach is "unsentimental" , the portrayal of childhood is "very compelling" .
Awards
The village of my dreams was shown in the competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 1996 . Yōichi Higashi won a Silver Bear for "the particularly original portrayal of a childhood". The film was also successful at other film festivals . He won the main prize at the Flanders International Film Festival and received a special jury prize at the International Istanbul Film Festival .
Mieko Harada was the main actress who won the Japanese film awards . She won the Blue Ribbon Award , the Hochi Film Award and the Kinema Junpo Award .
Web links
- The village of my dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)