Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden (2004)
BDRip 1080p | 52mn | 1920x1080 | MKV [email protected] Mbps 23.98fps | AC3@640Kbps 2CH 48KHz | 4.37 GiB
Language: English | Genre: Documentary | Subtitles: None
BDRip 1080p | 52mn | 1920x1080 | MKV [email protected] Mbps 23.98fps | AC3@640Kbps 2CH 48KHz | 4.37 GiB
Language: English | Genre: Documentary | Subtitles: None
This 52-minute film documents one season of human and nature interacting in a village near reed marshes supplied by Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture. (Lake Biwa is Japan's largest freshwater lake and one of the world's oldest lakes.) Much of the documentary focuses on the life of a single villager, Sangoro Tanaka, an old man who fishes the reed marshes using a traditional net trap fishing method, and part of it follows the lives of a few of the animals that share the waterways as their home. The houses in the featured village are all designed so that fresh spring water from the village's water system is piped directly into each house, a unique system called "kabata" that ties the health of the village directly to the well-being of the water.