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Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn

Juichiro Yamsaki | 2015 | 117'

SYNOPSIS

1726, Sanchu Okayama prefecture: peasants negotiate with the feudal domain for exemption from rising taxes before infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the peasants unite for battle. It is a moment of injustice, which sets the stage for bravery and sacrifice.

BIOGRAPHY

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Juichiro Yamasaki

Yamasaki Juichiro (1978, Osaka, Japan) organised a student film festival during his time at university, made a couple of short films and worked as an assistant director. After living in the city for years, he moved to the small mountain village of Okayama where his father was born. There he started working as a tomato farmer. The Sound of Light (2011), about the life of a farmer in modern times, was his feature film debut. After Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015), Yamabuki (2022) is his third film.

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Critical text

Juichiro Yamasaki has never quite made it into the international critics' spotlight and rankings, nor into the specialist accounts of new Japanese cinema. Despite this blindness (voluntary or involuntary), we are faced with a defiant, iconoclastic creator with an enormous knowledge of his country's cinematic tradition. In this case, Yamasaki dares to take on the canonical genre in Japan and one of those with the greatest international scope, the jidai geki, normally set in the Tokugawa era (1608-1868). Yamasaki's approach, rather than the classic exponents represented by Kurosawa or Mizoguchi, has to do with the critical perspective and the rupturist impulse of filmmakers such as Nagisa Oshima or Masahiro Shinoda. Sanchu Uprising... makes a decidedly social re-reading of a genre that is little given to such perspectives. The uprising of the title is that of a group of peasants against the abusive taxes of the feudal lords. The defiance will have harsh consequences on the members of a community of workers who dare to challenge part of the established order. Yamasaki not only plays against the tide with his themes: his formal approach is also non-conformist and offers us some absolutely unexpected sequences, which don't exclude breaking the fourth wall, theatrical fragments and even animated scenes. Militancy, (in)dignity, rebellion and, finally, emotion, coexist in a work that reveals a filmmaker of deep humanism and surprising inventiveness. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH

Technical Sheet

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Dirección y guión
Juichiro Yamasaki

Fotografía
Kôta Tawara

Música
Ayako Sasaki

Intérpretes
Naohisa Tanaka, Kano Kajiwara, Yoshitomo Fujihisa, Keiko Furuuchi, Shoichi Honda, Yôta Kawase, Naohisa Nakagaki, Nobukazu Sugii, Shun’nosuke Uryû

Producción
Ai Kurokawa, Hirotaka Kuwahara, Kayoko Nakanishi

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