Tale of a Butcher Shop

Tale of a Butcher Shop
  • Tuesday, May 27, 10:15 p.m. Naxoshalle Kino
  • Aru seinikuten no hanashi
    ある精肉店のはなし
  • Japan 2013, Blu-ray, 109 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Aya HANABUSA
  • Production: Yashiho Films, Polepoletimes Co., Ltd.
  • Camera: Chizuna OKUBO
  • Music: Junpei SAKUMA
  • World sales: Polepoletimes Co., Ltd.
  • European premiere
  • Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award

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Through sunlit alleys, a cow is led to a slaughterhouse in Osaka. There, the animal is killed and its meat cut up. This is a part of the life of the Kitade family who has been running a small butcher shop for generations. But the documentary also shows the discrimination that Burakumin people, the outcasts of traditional Japanese society, still have to face to this day.

Director Bio
Born in Tokyo in 1974, Aya HANABUSA studied at Jiyu Gakuen University and later worked with the production company Polepoletimes. After becoming a freelance filmmaker, she made her directorial debut in 2010 with HOLY ISLAND, which was awarded as the best documentary film at Sicily Environmental Film Festival.

Filmography
2010 Holy Island (Houri no shima)

 

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