Yamasaki Juichiro
YAMASAKI Juichiro (1978, Osaka, Japan) organised a student film festival during his studies at university, made a couple of short films and worked as an assistant director. After living in the city for years, he moved to the small mountain village in Okayama where his father was born. There he went to work as a tomato farmer. The Sound of Light (2011), about life as a farmer in current times, was his feature debut. Yamabuki (2022) is selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition.
Filmography
(selection) Kovo/The Fall Leaves (2008, short), Hikari no oto/The Sound of Light (2011), Atarashiki tami/Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015), Yamabuki (2022)
Yamasaki Juichiro at IFFR
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The Sound of Light
The filmmaker is a filmmaker, but the filmmaker is also a farmer. The film is about farmers and their problems pursuing a traditional life in this
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Yamabuki
A quietly radical story in which the lives of a teenaged protestor, a Korean migrant worker, and others intersect in rural Japan.