Plot Summary
Bianca Charamsa made her way to Japan during this year's cherry blossom season to get to grips with the country's character through conversations with some of its artists. Although two violent atomic catastrophes - the bombing of Hiroshima and the Fukushima nuclear disaster - have shaken and shaped modern-day Japan, the artist Takahiro Iwasaki believes that memory of 6th and 9th August 1945 is slowly fading, despite all the folded cranes left by visitors to the memorial sites. Natural catastrophes like sea- and earthquakes also rock Japan time and time again; perhaps this explains why the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi incorporates both beauty and decay...much like the beauty of the cherry blossom as it withers during the annual festival of Hanami
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Im Reich der Spiegel - Auf der Suche nach der japanischen Seele
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- de
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Production Companies
DOCDAYS Productions
ZDF
ARTE
3sat
ORF
IFS Internationale Filmschule Köln GmbH