Fukushima pride is strong close to evacuation zone
Ohashi owns a successful baked goods company in Fukushima City. He has used grains from organic farmers in Fukushima Prefecture, but now he may have to look elsewhere. Even if the grains are...
View ArticleNew intern on Colors of the Four Seasons Farm
Maruyama, the new Hokkaido University intern on the Yoshidas' farm in Hanawa, Fukushima. Masanori Yoshida shows Haruyama the ropes in the chicken coop. My horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse....
View ArticleGrandma Yoshida instructs the young men’s farm work
Taihei Maruyama, Seiya Yoshida and Junko Kajino in the Yoshidas' vegetable field. Grandma Yoshida working in the vegetable field. Exotic bugs on the pesticide-free radish leaves. Grandma Yoshida is...
View ArticleYoshizawa gets his radiation results and partial compensation
Yoshizawa at evacuated Namie's city hall-in-exile in Nihonmatsu, awaiting the results of his full-body radiation scan. Yoshizawa displays the results of his radiation scan, which indicate he's been...
View ArticleSugeno fights for his Fukushima farm
Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff...
View ArticleBaking bread by headlight
We produced this series of 15-20 second videos for Tokyo nonprofit Ganbatte 365, about Fukushima City bread maker and hemophiliac amputee Yuji Ohashi, whose company Ginray was one of the few reliable...
View ArticleFukushima 1 Year After the Meltdown
Fukushima farmers’ rice harvest sits in stockpiles, mostly unsold after radioactive cesium was detected in samples in and outside of the prefecture. Unable to sell their rice, Fukushima organic...
View ArticleWhy we’re making Uncanny Terrain
Filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski talk about making the documentary Uncanny Terrain, about organic farmers facing Japan’s nuclear crisis. http://tinyurl.com/uncannyterrain
View ArticleUncanny Terrain reception Sunday and more
This is video we shot of the December performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago by Uncanny Terrain composer Tatsu Aoki‘s group Tsukasa Taiko Legacy at JASC. Tatsu and his band The MIYUMI...
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