Magino Village: A Tale
Directed by Shinsuke OgawaDecember 1, 1987 3h 42mDocumentary, Drama
7.56.2
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of the village in the sections titled "The Tale of Horikiri Goddess" and "The Origins of Itsutsudomoe Shrine". Ogawa combines all the techniques that were developed in his previous films to simultaneously express multiple layers of time--the temporally of rice growing and of human life, personal life histories, the history of the village, the time of the Gods, and new time created through theatrical reenactment--bring them into a unified whole. The faces of the Magino villagers appear in numerous roles--sometimes as individuals, sometimes as people who carry the history of the village in their memories, sometimes as storytellers reciting myths, and even as members of the crowd in the fictional sequences--transcending time and space.
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Magino Village: A Tale was released on December 1, 1987.
Magino Village: A Tale was directed by Shinsuke Ogawa.
Magino Village: A Tale has a runtime of 3h 42m.
Magino Village: A Tale was produced by Hiroo Fuseya.
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of the village in the sections titled "The Tale of Horikiri Goddess" and "The Origins of Itsutsudomoe Shrine". Ogawa combines all the techniques that were developed in his previous films to simultaneously express multiple layers of time--the temporally of rice growing and of human life, personal life histories, the history of the village, the time of the Gods, and new time created through theatrical reenactment--bring them into a unified whole. The faces of the Magino villagers appear in numerous roles--sometimes as individuals, sometimes as people who carry the history of the village in their memories, sometimes as storytellers reciting myths, and even as members of the crowd in the fictional sequences--transcending time and space.
The key characters in Magino Village: A Tale are Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Tatsumi Hijikata.
Magino Village: A Tale is a Documentary, Drama film.
Magino Village: A Tale has an audience rating of 7.5 out of 10.