A New Documentary PEACE is now completed!

PEACE, my new documentary is now completed and ready for festivals and distributions.

PEACE is a visual-essay-like observational documentary, which contemplates such questions as "what is peace?" "what is the basis of it?" by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life and death, acceptance and rejection are intermingled. One of the main characters of the film is a 91-year-old war veteran Mr. Shiro Hashimoto who is dying of lung cancer. Living in a mice infected small apartment, he is spending his final days, thinking about his own death.

The film was commissioned by DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, and it will be world-premiered there in September 2010. It is available in HD in two versions - 75 minutes and 53 minutes. All rights are available.

新作映画『PEACE』（観察映画・番外編）が完成した。

本作は、人々や猫たちの、生と死、受容と拒絶が交錯する日常生活を観察しながら、平和について考えるビジュアル・エッセイ風の観察映画。映画の主人公の一人は、橋本至郎氏（９１歳）。一人暮らしのアパートで、自らの死を見つめる日々。ひょんなことから、彼の戦争体験が蘇る。

この作品は、国境線の街・韓国のパジュで開かれる非武装地帯ドキュメンタリー映画祭の依頼を受け作られた。９月に開かれる同映画祭でワールド・プレミア上映される予定。撮影地は『精神』と同じ岡山。７５分版と５３分版がある。