Nippon-koku Ogata-mura
Werk
Japan – Big Lagoon Village
Deutschland
2021
Japanisch, Englisch
23.04.2022, Hamburg, 19. dokumentarfilmwoche
„How to build a modern village on this new „artificial land?“
This was the question for the planers of Ogata-mura (Big Lagoon Village) that was build in postwar Japan on the ground of what was once Japans second largest inland lake. Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality, the film portrays the rice- village created in the framework of a huge national land reclamation project. What was once planned as a „model farming village“ by the government would later become the place of what some would call a "secret revolution of farmers“.
This was the question for the planers of Ogata-mura (Big Lagoon Village) that was build in postwar Japan on the ground of what was once Japans second largest inland lake. Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality, the film portrays the rice- village created in the framework of a huge national land reclamation project. What was once planned as a „model farming village“ by the government would later become the place of what some would call a "secret revolution of farmers“.