Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life

2021 92 min

Overview

At once tranquil and bracing, Tu Neill and Jim Speers’ film is a portrait of a seaside town and its vanishing way of life. Though it is now slowly emptying, Ayukawa was once a thriving coastal community, its success based on a practice rooted in tradition, custom, and ceremony: whaling. Through the voices of local elders, the film conveys how that form of hunting developed into the lifeblood of the town before cultural changes, international condemnation, and strict regulation brought it to the brink of non-existence.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Japan
New Zealand
United Kingdom

Spoken Languages

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Cast

Crew

Jim Speers

Writer

Kath Akuhata-Brown

Executive Producer

Tu Neill

Producer

Kentarô Yamada

Producer

Tu Neill

Director

Tu Neill

Writer

Jim Speers

Producer

Kentarô Yamada

Writer

Sue Thompson

Executive Producer

Jim Speers

Director

Adrian Grey

Executive Producer

Backdrops

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