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The Inland Sea
In 1971, author as well as movie scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue regarding his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a standard way of life along with his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip influenced by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and conference people that still continued the fading personalizeds that Richie had observed. Sprinkled with shocking detours-- a browse through to a Frank Sinatra-- loving monk, a leper swarm, an ersatz temple of plywood and also plaster-- as well as woven with each other by Richie's narration along with a score by renowned author Toru Takemitsu, The Inland Sea is an eye-opening voyage as well as a profound meditation on what it implies to be an immigrant.