Kurage is an imaginary island south-west of Japan and its inhabitants still live like primitives and believe that the island has been created by the gods.
One day, the engineer Kariya arrives from Tokyo, looking for a source of water which is needed by a local sugar refinery. The local population will undermine his trust in rationality. The movie tells about the eternal conflict between modernity and ancestral traditions.
Country: Giappone
Year: 1968
Running time: 172'
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Shohei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe
Cinematography: Masao Tochizawa
Editing: Mutsuo Tanji
Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi
With: Kazuo Kitamura, Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshi Kato, Choichiro Kawarazaki
