early elephant film presents “air”
duration-1:32:37
HD film
2011/2016
Director: Sunairi Hiroshi Producer: Joel Kinbeck & Shibata Toshi Cast: Ono Fuki, Ono Rintaro, Ono Tomoko, Ono Yuki, Horiguchi Chikara, Tochikubo Koichi, Takezawa Yuzo Cinematography: Sunairi Hiroshi & Saito Yoshitaka Editing & Sound: Sunairi Hiroshi Music: Robert Schumann & Hasunuma Shuta Musicians: Ito Ken (drums), Ishizuka Shuta (guitar), Miyaji Natsumi (flute)
Sound Engineer: Toshihiko Kasai Sound Mixer: Carlos Sidre Velez
Director: Hiroshi Sunairi
producer: Joel Kimbeck & Toshi Shibata
Cast: Fuki Ono, Rintaro Ono, Tomoko Ono, Yuuki Ono, Chikara Horiguchi, Yasuichi Tochikubo, Yuzo Takezawa
Cinematography: Hiroshi Sunairi & Yoshitaka Saito
Edit & Sound: Hiroshi Sunairi
music: Robert Schumann, Shuta Hasunuma
musicians: itoken (drum), Shuta Ishizuka (guitar), Natsumi Miyaji (flute)
sound engineer: Toshihiko Kasai
sound mixer: Carlos Andrés Cidre Vélez
Director Sunairi visited Fukushima from the United States in August 2011, wanting to see with his own eyes the situation in Fukushima after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Four years later, in the summer of 2015, Sunairi returns to Fukushima with a ginkgo seedling from an exposed tree that he received from an arborist in Hiroshima. There, he reunites with taxi driver Koichi Tochikubo.
Synopsis
“air” takes place in a taxi with a 60-year-old driver, while traveling, observing and intimately conversing of the inescapable fact of life after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. While busy streets of Tokyo swamp the sky of an unknown suspense, trees survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima evokes a hope.