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Temple Family(2021)

Follows an 800-year-old family-run temple in Kyoto as it struggles to balance tradition with progress in order to thrive in the 21st century.

  • Documentary

Overview

The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would seem to belie its long history. But in order for the family-run temple to thrive in the 21st century, it must continue to reinvent itself. Intimately following future head priest Scion (30) along with his fiancée Haruka and firstborn sister Ariya, critically-acclaimed director Ema Ryan Yamazaki captures one unexpected corner of Japanese society's struggle to balance tradition with progress.

Status:Released
Release Date:Jun 26, 2021
Runtime: 30m

Director:

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Top Cast

Haruka Ishizaki

Haruka Ishizaki

Ariya Sazaki

Ariya Sazaki

Scion Sazaki

Scion Sazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

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