Special Screening of "Mawari Kagura"
Event Date
Event Venue
2018/10/16
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Date and Time | Tuesday, October 23, 2018, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Venue | South School Building Hall (5th floor, South School Building), Mita Campus, Keio University |
Eligibility |
Open to everyone.
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The screening will be followed by a talk and discussion with the director, Kyo Endo.
Synopsis (from the film "Mawari Kagura" )
A troupe of Kagura performers travels along the Sanriku coast, asking for a night's lodging.
The people of Sanriku, who live with the sea, welcome the Kagura into their homes, entrusting them with prayers for safety at sea, abundant catches, and family well-being. From the cradle to the grave, the "Kuromori Kagura" has continued its pilgrimage for over 340 years, accompanying the people of Sanriku throughout their lives.
The people of the coast were deeply scarred by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The Kagura troupe, having narrowly escaped the tsunami, resumes its pilgrimage to comfort the people. Their dances are prayers to console the souls of the deceased and to encourage the living. In the sound of the Kagura, a harbinger of spring, people sense the end of a long winter.
In this place, struck by tsunamis time and again, the Kagura troupe has for hundreds of years served as a link between nature and people. On the rich Sanriku coast, where Zashiki-warashi, Oshirasama, gods, and spirits still dwell, a post-tsunami "Umi no Tono Monogatari" (The Legends of Tono of the Sea) was born.