
Temple Family (2021)
N/A|26 Jun, 2021|30 min
Follows an 800-year-old family-run temple in Kyoto as it struggles to balance tradition with progress in order to thrive in the 21st century.
N/A|26 Jun, 2021|30 min
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The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would seem to belie its long history. But in order for the family-run temple to thrive in the 21st century, it must continue to reinvent itself. Intimately following future head priest Scion (30) along with his fiancée Haruka and firstborn sister Ariya, critically-acclaimed director Ema Ryan Yamazaki captures one unexpected corner of Japanese society's struggle to balance tradition with progress.
Keywords
temple
traditional values
documentary short
Casts
Haruka Ishizaki
Ariya Sazaki
Scion Sazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Crews

Shiori Ito
Director of Photography

Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Director
Shin Yasuda
Producer
Shin Yasuda
Executive Producer
Eric Nyari
Executive Producer
Akihiko Sugie
Executive Producer
James Morimoto Yuya
Director of Photography
Mariko Ide
Editor