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RAI Film Festival 2017. Uzu /

Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines that can weigh up to a ton collide them together in a holy battle, leaving many injured and exhausted. &...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kuentz, Gaspard, 1981- (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with English subtitles.
Published: London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2015.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Festivals > Japan > Matsuyama-shi.
Shinto > Customs and practices.
Violence > Japan > Matsuyama-shi > Religious aspects.
Shintō > Coutumes et pratiques.
Violence > Japon > Matsuyama (Ehime) > Aspect religieux.
Festivals
Shinto > Customs and practices
Violence > Religious aspects
Japan > Matsuyama-shi
Documentaries and Factual Films
documentary film.
Documentary films
Short films
Documentary films.
Short films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines that can weigh up to a ton collide them together in a holy battle, leaving many injured and exhausted. "Uzu" is an immersive documentary film that focuses on the physical and spiritual experience of the festival from within. A thrilling ride into the violence as well as a penetrating insight into its meaning, "Uzu" propounds a unique cinematic experience, between sensory ethnography and "war" reporting.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (28 min.)
Playing Time:00:27:18