Los Angeles, CA – March 4, 2019 – Kazuhiro Soda’s black and white observational film, ‘INLAND SEA’ will exclusively screen in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 16th and Sunday, March 17th.
“INLAND SEA: It’s one of the best, sharpest, most beautiful and warmest film about the outskirts and depopulation I’ve ever seen,” raved POV International.
Produced by Kiyoko Kashiwagi, INLAND SEA (aka MINATOMACHI) takes place in a small village called Ushimado in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Ushimado was so beloved by film director Shohei Imamura that he set two of his films there, BLACK RAIN and DR. AKAGI. Today, its rich, ancient culture is rapidly aging, as INLAND SEA follows the tight-knit community who’s on the verge of disappearing.
Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make his living, dreaming about retirement. Kumi-san is an 84-year-old villager who wanders around the shore everyday. She believes a social welfare facility “stole” her disabled son to receive a subsidy from the government. A “late-stage elderly” Koso-san runs a small seafood store left by her deceased husband. She sells fish to local villagers and provides leftovers to stray cats.
INLAND SEA has had a globally successful run on the festival circuit, including the film’s official selection in the 2018 Berlinale Forum section, where the observational documentary received the prestigious nomination for the Glasshütte Original Documentary Award.
Recently, Spectacle Theater (Brooklyn, NY) announced that it will host a complete retrospective “RADICAL OBSERVATION: The Films of Kazuhiro Soda”, screening all of Soda’s nine films including INLAND SEA, which will begin on March 2nd with a Q&A. For more information, please visit: http://www.spectacletheater.com/kazuhiro-soda/
INLAND SEA will exclusively screen at Arena Cinelounge (6464 Sunset Blvd. Lobby Level, Los Angeles, CA 90028) on Saturday, March 16th at 2:00 PM and on Sunday, March 17th at 2:20 PM. For more information, please visit: http://arenascreen.com/calendar. To attend and for press inquiries, please contact: jenna@tricoast.com.
Additionally, MUBI has announced that the platform will begin streaming INLAND SEA globally, beginning March 4th. MUBI will release Soda’s PEACE on March 5th, CAMPAIGN on March 18th, CAMPAIGN 2 on March 19th, and will also show MENTAL, THEATRE 1 and THEATRE 2 during the summer across multiple international territories. The curated streaming film platform is available at https://mubi.com, on Roku devices, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Samsung Smart TVs, as well as on mobile devices including iPad, iPhone and Android.
INLAND SEA (2017, 122 min.) Directed and written by Kazuhiro Soda. Producers: Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Kazuhiro Soda. Editor: Kazuhiro Soda. Cinematographer: Kazuhiro Soda. Japan/USA, Japanese/Silent. Laboratory X, Rock Salt Releasing.
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Laboratory X – Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Kazuhiro Soda.
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