{"id":490,"date":"2009-08-08T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:17:28","slug":"shiga-moviesatoyama-%e9%87%8c%e5%b1%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/shiga-moviesatoyama-%e9%87%8c%e5%b1%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiga movie: Satoyama (\u91cc\u5c71)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4OXklJQG3SU?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A full-length movie filmed in Shiga Prefecture called <em>Satoyama<\/em> (\u91cc\u5c71) will be released to theaters in Japan from Aug. 22, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In July, I was invited to a movie screening in Tokyo. The movie is a narrated documentary showing how people in Shiga interact and coexist with nature. The term &#8220;Satoyama&#8221; literally means &#8220;Human habitat and Mountain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A farming couple growing mushrooms on numerous tree branches, a honeybee keeper making sweet honey, etc. Besides people, the film also shows fantastic scenes of insects, birds, boars, and other wildlife. A pair beetles wrestling and one loses by being flung off the tree. A bird plunging into the river water to catch a small fish in its beak (shown in slow motion). Amazing how the photographer was able to plant the camera at the right places.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very beautiful and engrossing film. The cinematography is first-class and the movie has won several international awards. Much of the movie was filmed in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Takashima,_Shiga\">Takashima<\/a> (probably Kutsuki) and <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Maibara,_Shiga\">Maibara<\/a>. Shiga photographer Imamori Mitsuhiko also appears in the movie showing kids around the wilderness. The movie was produced by NHK and it was originally shown on TV as an &#8220;NHK Special.&#8221; Parts 1 and 2 of the Satoyama TV series were re-edited and combined with additional footage to make this fantastic movie.<\/p>\n<p>See the movie trailer at the official Web site:\u00a0http:\/\/satoyama.gyao.jp\/ (broken)<\/p>\n<p>Amazon sells a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/\u6620\u50cf\u8a69-\u91cc\u5c71%7E\u5287\u5834\u7248%7E-DVD-\u30c9\u30ad\u30e5\u30e1\u30f3\u30bf\u30ea\u30fc\u6620\u753b\/dp\/B002R0JZBQ\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1445908460&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=\u6620\u50cf\u8a69+\u91cc\u5c71%7E\u5287\u5834\u7248%7E\" target=\"_blank\">DVD of the movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Times also published an excellent article about the meaning of the word &#8220;satoyama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090823x1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090823x1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full-length movie filmed in Shiga Prefecture called Satoyama (\u91cc\u5c71) will be released to theaters in Japan from Aug. 22, 2009. In July, I was invited to a movie screening in Tokyo. The movie is a narrated documentary showing how&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shigaken","category-takashima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}