- Publication date
- 28/05/2020
- Last change
- 05/10/2022
OTO
Directed by
Matteo Ferrarini
/
Elisa Motta
|
Documentary |
2022
On June 27, 1973, Luigi Kyotaro, known as Kyo, was the first Japanese child to be born in Parma.
Today he lives in Tokyo where he has opened an Italian restaurant. As a child he felt like a foreigner in the place where he was born; now he is a foreigner in his place of origin.
Today he lives in Tokyo where he has opened an Italian restaurant. As a child he felt like a foreigner in the place where he was born; now he is a foreigner in his place of origin.
In the 1960s, Emiko Nakamura grew up in Germany, where his father moved for work. Today, after making a family in Argentina, she has had to return to Japan to care for her dying father. For Emiko, like Kyo, the fact that her Japanese appearance conflicted with her own upbringing and the sound of the language she speaks gave her existential problems.
Through the teachings of Mayumi, who reinterprets the age-old Shinto tradition from a secular and modern perspective, we will discover that the characters’ bad living is also the bad living of all humanity, due to the disconnect between man and nature that is typical of contemporary life.