Celebrating the restoration ceremony of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kasuga Grand Shrine, NIFF dedicates a showcase to honor the 1,300 year history of the shrine. After the showcase, an offering service will be held at the Main Hall to light the votive candles of the lanterns of the shrine.
Exhibition day
20 Tue
Venue
【I】Kasuga Grand Shrine
Ticket
【Door】￥2,000 Part of the fee will be offered to the restoration
A Once Every 20-Year Event
The Special Celebration for the 60th Kasuga Grand Shrine Restoration CeremonyOsunamochi / Special Opening of the National Treasure Main Hall
Oct.6th Thu?Oct.23th Sun(Exclude 9th, 11th and morning of 21st.)
Until the Gods return to the shrine’s main hall after the completed restoration, the special service will be carried out to transport sand to the front of the Main Hall. During this time period the renewed main hall will be viewable to the public. This is a once-per-20-year opportunity.
Time
9:00-16:30
Reception
East side of the main hall corridor(No reservation needed）
Admission fee
\2,000 (with a commemoration gift)
ALEXEI AND THE SPRING
Director's
Introduction
Seizing an opportunity : Five years after the acclaim for "Nadya's Village" in Berlin. Budische, a small village in the Republic of Belarus which has been contaminated by radioactive fall-out from the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Most residents left the village; fifty-five elderly people and one young man, Alexei, remained....because the village is their homeland....because there is a 100 year-old spring which is untainted by the nuclear accident.
Director : Seiichi Motohashi DOP : Masafumi Ichinose / Editor : Masaru Muramoto / Music : Ryuichi Sakamoto Japan / 2002 / 104min / color / JPN Sub.
Profile
Seiichi Motohashi
A celebrated Japanese photographer who has received many photography awards, such as the Domon Ken Award. He has also directed and produced many films since his debut, the award winning film "NADYA'S VILLAGE", which focused on the remaining nuclear contamination of Chernobyl.
