Jyowa

01/01/2015

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1hr 50min

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Documentary

communicating through ropes

STORY

Jyowa is a made-up word created by Yukimura Sensei which merges the characters for “rope” and for “speaking or communicating”, hence it can be translated as “communicating through ropes” or “rope stories”. This project was started in Tokyo in 2011 as a documentary film, yet it ended up becoming more of an aesthetic experience that takes the viewer into the unique universe of five of Japan’s top rope artists (by order of appearance): Naka Akira, Yukimura Haruki, Nawashi Kanna, Urado Hiroshi and Hajime Kinoko. In each of the the five chapters we can see two people taking a journey into a deep and profound level of communication in which rope takes a very special place.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Akira Nakata
  • Nozomi Mashiro
  • Haruki Yukimura
  • Sanae
  • Kanna Nawashi

    Directors

  • Daniel Costa Neves
  • Pedro Diniz Reis

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Nuit de Tokyo
  • ANTSMEDIA
  • Irmã Lúcia Efeitos Especiais

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Japanese