Mochi (2020)

Iwate Prefecture's Ichinoseki City, where the tradition of eating mochi at important times remains from the old days. I first visited the city and met many people. Middle schools shutting down, villages that have brought up children, teachers, adults, the traditional performing art Torimai. The plan I came up with was to get a performance of people's feelings while attending this middle school for six months. The film is acted out without using any professional actors; with the residents of the city following along with scenarios but expressing their own thoughts through words. This is not a story that exists just here, but universally across Japan.