A Town and a Tall Chimney
130 mins
Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, the environment is so polluted that the plants in the fields die and the air, which is laden with toxic smoke, can no longer be breathed. But Saburo, the grandson of the village elder, can no longer put up with this and forms the resistance of the villagers. In Junpei, the idealistic employee of Hitachi, he finds an unexpected ally, and together they fight for a way to save the village.
Jirô Nitta
Story
Keiko Jonouchi
Producer
Yoshinori Watanabe
Screenplay
Kazuo Kame
Producer
伊藤尚哉
Casting
Isao Hasegawa
Art Direction
Sachio Tanida
Decorator
Reiji Okubo
Gaffer