Advance booking discount 1200 yen

1700 yen on the day (Member discounts available)

High school students: 1400 yen (Member discounts available)

Elementary and middle school students 1000 yen (Member discounts available)

Senior 1200 yen (Member discounts available)

9/24 (Sat) to 30 (Fri) 10:10
10/01 (Mon) to 07 (Fri) 19:00
10/08 (Sat), 09 (Sun) 18:30
10/10 (Mon) -13 (Thu) 17:10 (final screening)

● “Caberre's Horse ~ 1966 Hisataka Isaiho”
(Photographed in 1966/1969/28 minutes; Director: Kitamura Minao)
Isaiho is a Shinto ritual held once every 12 years in the year of the horse on Kudaka Island, the sacred place of the Ryukyu dynasty. It is performed by women between the ages of 30 and 41 who were born and raised on the island to qualify as goddesses to participate in the island's ritual group. It is an adult shrine ceremony where she is newly reborn as an Onari (sister) god who receives a new seji (spiritual power) and protects male siblings, and a goddess who wishes for the prosperity and safety of the house/village. A fantasy travelogue where an old woman, played by Sakae Kitabayashiya, talks about the spiritual culture of the island of God, such as the origin myth of the island, Onari god worship, utaki, and wind burial, based on Isaiho from 1966. A valuable record of Isaiho, which ended in 1978. Takehisa Kosugi works on the music. It is the earliest film directed by Kitamura Minao, who later became a pioneer in visual folklore.

● “South Island Afterglow: Women's Needle Collision (Hajichi) ~Irezumi in the Miyako Islands, Okinawa~”
(Filmed in 1984/2014/64 minutes/color/ 4:3 Director: Kitamura Minao)
Irezumi (Hajichi) is engraved on the hands of grandmothers in Miyako, Okinawa. In the past, Yonaguni Island in the south and Amami Oshima Island and Kikaijima in the north were seen as symbols of South Island women, but they gradually became obsolete after the “tattoo ban” in the Meiji period. In 1984, I visited a woman who conveyed hajichi to the Okinawa main island and the Miyako Islands, and asked 22 women between 88 and 99 to talk about their own hajichi. The lives of women who lived in a turbulent world are told in loud island language, along with deeply engraved wrinkles. It is a valuable record just before the disappearance of Irezumi culture on the South Island.

Director: Kitamura Minao
Photo: Hiroshi Yanase, Minao Kitamura
Produced by Minao Kitamura/Yoko Miura
Supervised by: Naka Mayikatsu
Ryuka: Kadekari Hayasho
Warabe song: Itoman City Nishizaki Elementary School Chorus Club Transcription/Arrangement: Sugimoto Nobuo
Photography Grants: Toyota Foundation
Produced and distributed by: Visual Folklore

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