About
presented by stylejamAbout the film "eatrip" "Contemporary Japanese food culture documentary"
DINNER TIME!!!
“eatrip” is a wonderful consideration of people and food. Try it! You’ll like this delectable morsel, this jovial dinner time, this lovely nibble at the link between people and food. To eat is indeed to live. Life is just an “eating trip” (eatrip).
People eat. That is how we survive. For humans, however, eating has become more than just sustenance and replenishment of nutrients. It has become an opportunity for bonding with others, for chatting about what we’ve been up to, and asking about our loved one’s days. The act of eating is also the act of interacting with nature. Meat, vegetables, fruit and grain are all living organisms that combine to sustain us. And if life is a journey, then surely eating is an excursion in itself. After all, is not life a series of dinner times?? Are our lives not sequences of feeding, nurturing and growing??
About the film
“eatrip” is the directorial debut of food coordinator, creator and teacher, Yuri Nomura.
“eatrip” explores the interpersonal relationships that food nurtures. To eat is a universal experience and this documentary takes the audience on a journey throughout Japan looking at how life can be led optimally through the daily ritual of eating. From the Tsukiji fish market to an Okinawan farm, the film offers poignant interviews with intriguing personalities, a few of whom include: Nichiji Sakai, head monk of the Ikegami Honmonji temple; Kanji Takahashi, a distributor of Japanese soup stock (Bonito broth); Naoko Morioka, an Okinawan leading a self-sustainable lifestyle; So-oku Sen a tea ceremony master and descendant of famed Sen No Rikyu; and Yayako Uchida, a musician and writer who recites poems about food.
“eatrip” culminates with a passionate meal cooked by the director herself, for actor Tadanobu Asano and singer UA and a handful of other eclectic guests.
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8O6AhzM8c
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Director’s statement
Eating – a common non-verbal bond between people.A momentary relationship between mankind and food.
We captured this on film.
Food is “common to all people”. Sometimes it has a more persuasive powerthan words. We can understand a lot just by having a meal together.”Eatrip” is not about the physical distance travelled, but the relationships inand around food. It is the sharing of time, experience, memories and coexistence.
Food is my occupation. The reason I wanted to make this film was my mother,who was the starting point for me. My mother is a vibrant person, who cooksfor all the family and handles the household.My irreplaceable universal memory of food is one of the daily spectacle of abeautiful table setting. I thought that focusing on the “material instinct” was animportant element in knowing the beginnings of humanity.
To the “Eatrip” creative team the power that food exerts in everyday life cameas a surprise. Even if people were to stop eating they would still feel theoverpowering need and value of food. It leaves such a discernible firm imageon our memory and feelings that it eclipses all else.
Eating is freedom. Therefore, I think that peeping a lookat people’s appetites, even in today’s Japan, is splendid. It is an entrance intothe delights of food, and their lives.
You suddenly look back, in a happy frame of mind, at your life. You canretrace your memories of food. It is an opportunity to go beyond it being just atasty meal to it being a fond memory that can be “recalled” in the future.It is to think that this is” the energy that lives”.
director Yuri Nomura
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Festivals
the Documentaries of the World section of the Montreal World Film Festival 2009
http://www.ffm-montreal.org/
the Vancouver International Film Festival 2009
http://www.viff.org/home.html
Le Festival International du Film d’Environnement 2009 (Paris)
http://www.iledefrance.fr/festival-film-environnement/
the Barcelona Asian Film Festival 2010
Spain, Barcelona (w/English subtitles)
http://www.baff-bcn.org
Libertas Film Festival 2010
Croatia, Dubrovnik (July 2nd – 6th, w/English subtitles)
http://www.libertasfilmfestival.com/v2/en/
Kos Island , Greece (Sep. 4th. 16:00-, w/English subtitles) *local time
http://www.healthfilmfestival.gr/
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Screenings (overseas)
■UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Tokyo, Japan Oct.08(Sat) 2011 – Oct.23(Sun) 20112nd. Tokyo Food Lovers Film Festival 2011 (“eatrip” with English subtitles)
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Yebisu Garden Place)
http://gohanproject.com/filmfestival/english
Vancouver, Canada Nov.08 2011 (with English subtitles)
VancityTheatre
http://www.viff.org/theatre/
■Host a Local Screening
Bring “eatrip” to your city!Send an email to info@tokyogohan.com for more details.
*If you use “eatrip” as part of a screening, workshop or any other way please let us know!
■PAST SCREENINGS
USA, Chicago 15.2.2010 (English subtitles)JAPANESE FILMS AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE
http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JIC/News/film_screenings2010.html
Viz cinema 【U.S. Premiere】 April 10th – 25th , 2010
USA, San Francisco
http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/films-4-2010/
*the U.S. premiere event (reception + foods & talk party with the director Yuri Nomura)
http://www.newpeopleworld.com/now-playing/eatrip-showdates-extended-by-popular-demand/
Libertas Film Festival 2010
Croatia, Dubrovnik (July 2nd – 6th, w/English subtitles)
http://www.libertasfilmfestival.com/v2/en/
Kos International Health Film Festival Ippokratis 2010
Kos Island , Greece (Sep. 4th. 16:00-, w/English subtitles) *local time
http://www.healthfilmfestival.gr/
Arizona (USA)
Chef’s Loft, Scottsdale (w/English subtitles)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
http://blog.scottsdalecvb.com:80/an-exclusive-screening-of-eatrip-a-japanese-foodie-film/
Hanoi (Vietnam)
1st. VIETNAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
Oct. 17th-21st. 2010
http://vniff.com/
San Francisco (USA)
Viz cinema Autum , 2010 (w/English subtitles)
http://www.newpeopleworld.com/
Tokyo (Japan)
1st. Tokyo Food Lovers Film Festival
Yebisu Garden cinema (w/English subtitles)
Nov. 6th – 12th, 2010
Others(Japan)
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Credits
Cast
Kanji Takahashi / Shoichiro Akiyama / Naoko Morioka / UA / So-oku Sen / Tadanobu Asfano / Nichiji Sakai / Masakatsu Shimoda / Yasuyuki Shuto / Jurgen Lehl / Kotringo / Takuji Aoyagi / Junko Asano / Yayako Uchida
Staff
music by Takuji Aoyagi / photo by Yuriko Takagi / poem by Yayako Uchid
director of photography Takahiro Imai / lighting Kosuke Suzuki
sound Nobuyuki Kikuchi / edited by Yuji Oshige /
producer Naoki Kai
directed by Yuri Nomura
produced and distributed by stylejam
2009 / Japan / 35mm / colour / 1:1.85 / 78min. / DTSstereo
©2009 stylejam
Press
Japan Times
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20090612a1.html
7月 | 決定 | 見込み | 8月 | 決定 | 見込み | 9月 | 決定 | 見込み | |
洋子 | 店頭物販 | 200,000 | 0 | 店頭物販 | 128,000 | 30,000 | 店頭物販 | 0 | 150,000 |
ネットショップ | 30,000 | 0 | ネットショップ | 30,000 | 6,000 | ネットショップ | 0 | 60,000 | |
モダンクラシック | 2,900 | 0 | モダンクラシック | 2,810 | 1,000 | モダンクラシック | 0 | 2,000 | |
日光イベント | 20,000 | 0 | 紙ものまつり(日光) | -50,000 | 0 | 紙ものまつり(大阪) | 0 | 100,000 | |
紙ものまつり(京都) | 295,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | パルコイベント | 0 | 150,000 | ||
沖原さん個展 | 50,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | ; | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
合計 | 597,900 | 0 | 110810 | 37000 | 0 | 462000 | |||
①決定+見込み | 597,900 | 147810 | 462000 | ||||||
②目標 | 350,000 | 350,000 | 400,000 | ||||||
①-②目標 | 247,900 | -202,190 | 62,000 | ||||||
備考 | |||||||||
見込み-目標 3ヶ月合計 | 107,710 | ||||||||
前期持ち越し分 | -81540 | 26,170 |