Young People Aim the Mountain Village (2023)

This documentary captures the lives of young people who have moved to Higashi-Chichibu, a village in the northern mountains of Saitama Prefecture. The area is rural and full of nature and the village is listed as a place with the potential to disappear. Recently many young people have begun to move there to prevent it from happening. Their number includes Nishi Sayaka, a native of the village, who returned from Tokyo. Takano Koichi, a former bank employee from Tokyo who became integrated into the community while developing a specialty product using nogombo, a traditional wild plant in the village, a young man who aspires to become a washi paper craftsman, and a woman who graduated from an art college. (Source: genkinahito.wordpress.com) Edit Translation

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