Following the excellent “Company Retreat”, which dealt with sexual harassment in the working place, Atsushi Funahashi implements another based on actual events, documentary-like approach where he also functions as writer, Dp, sound-recorder, and editor, in order to deal this time, with recidivism and the way ex convicts can function within society after they are released.
Burden of the Past is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan has a recidivism rate of 50%. The staff at a magazine called Change, which is run by Takashi Nagata, want to lower that by rehabilitating former prisoners, with Funahashi creating a docudrama focusing on both them and the convicts they try to help, though a year of their workshops, therapy, efforts to get them jobs and a stage performance that serves as the second part of the movie. As he delves more into the whole concept, the difficulties both have to face, both internally and externally,...
Burden of the Past is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan has a recidivism rate of 50%. The staff at a magazine called Change, which is run by Takashi Nagata, want to lower that by rehabilitating former prisoners, with Funahashi creating a docudrama focusing on both them and the convicts they try to help, though a year of their workshops, therapy, efforts to get them jobs and a stage performance that serves as the second part of the movie. As he delves more into the whole concept, the difficulties both have to face, both internally and externally,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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