Chained Hands in Prayer
Synopsis
The first project Tomiyama created with the filmmakers Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Maeda Katsuhiro. Produced in four language versions, it includes poetry by the Korean dissident poet Kim Ji-ha and music by the composer Takahashi Yūji, a leading figure of postwar Japanese new music, with whom Tomiyama collaborated over the years.
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