An art documentary film “The Untold Story of a Samurai Painter in Kyoto” will be featured at the virtual Japan Film Festival Los Angeles 2020.
Virtual screening will be available from Oct. 1, 00:00AM through Oct. 4, 11:59PM. Tickets are $6. Acceptable devises are PC and tablet computers. Smart phones are not able to view films of the JFFLA. To purchase tickets and view films, visit https://www.jffla.org
The history of Yamato-e painting dates back to more than a thousand years, in the Heian Period. Although painters in Japan were greatly influenced by Chinese painting from the Tang Dynasty, they strived to create a new genre based on their own culture, giving rise to Yamato-e.
Through the strokes of brushes, the Yamato-e artists have strived to instill ardent motives into painting. Above all, regardless of consequence to reputation or life, they struggled simply to make their paintings look beautiful forever.
Their passionate tales have never been chronicled and their names have been lost to history. But their works has not been in vain. Japanese painting today is imbued with their spirit.
The film depicts the splendor and richness of the Yamato-e painting style during the final years of the Shogun in the Edo Period and at the beginning of the Meiji Period.
This film is dedicated to the artists who struggled and strived for the beauty of life: Tani Buncho (1763-1840); Reizei Tamechika (1823-1854): and Sakakibara Bunsui (1824-1903).
京都「やまと絵師」物語
The Untold Story of a Samurai Painter in Kyoto
2018, 85 mins
English narration by Marc Carpentier
Written & Directed by Kiyoji Murakami
Cinematography by Kiyoji Murakami and Seiko Akiba
Music by Yusuke Nasu
Executive Producers: Kiyoji Murakami & Fumiko Murakami
Produced by Cinema 1
