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Overview
Sarushima Island lies off the coast of Yokosuka Port. In the late Edo Period the island was outfitted with artillery and in the Meiji period a fort was constructed by the Army. After Japan’s defeat in the war, it was opened as a sea park and young people began to make it a destination. Noda visited it to shoot in black and white in 1968, and in color in 1983. In excluding human figures from the screen and filming ruins and graffiti in their materiality, he experiments at creating a visual poem.
Other films by Shinkichi Noda
Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods
Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods
1991
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks
The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks
1988
The Mikagura Festival of Tomiyama Village
The Mikagura Festival of Tomiyama Village
1985
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds
Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds
1984
