STORY
青々と稲が茂る夏の田園風景。風景の真ん中に小さな丘がある。丘の上には詰襟姿の「僕」が立っている。「どん！」「どん！」と繰り返し叫んでいる。「僕」は田に飛来する鳥を大声を出して追い払おうとしているのだ。祖父より頼まれたれっきとした仕事である。「僕」は子供にからかわれたりしながらも仕事を続けて行く。村祭りの夜は若者が田にいたずらをしないか見張り番をすることも。 そんなある日「僕」は祖父の死に向き合うことになり。
奔放な詩的イメージが連鎖して行く処女作。田の真ん中にこんもりと盛られた丘。身の丈を越すススキ畑。荒野のような造成地に立つ電柱群。監督が日常生活で接した不思議な風景が物語の起点となっている。８ミリフィルムの質感が懐かしさを誘う。
Sono natsu no don
There is a small green hill in the center of a rural landscape in summer, which is overgrown with lush rice.
‘A boy’ wearing a school uniform with a standup color, is standing on the hill.
He cries out “don” again and again, and tries to turn the birds that fly to his rice paddy away.
This is a respected duty for him inherited from his grandfather.
Even though sometimes children make fun of him, he continues his job every day.
At night of a village festival, he looks out for the young who might be up to mischief on the hill.
One day he faced the death of his grandfather...
The first film Yokota directed describes a series of unrestrained poetic images; a small hill in the rice paddy; a field of Japanese pampas grass which is taller than people; a cluster of electric light poles standing in a development area like wasteland. This story is based on a mysterious landscape that Yokota found in his daily life. The texture of 8 mm film makes us feel nostalgia for the good old days.
The first film Yokota directed describes a series of unrestrained poetic images; a small hill in the rice paddy; a field of Japanese pampas grass which is taller than people; a cluster of electric light poles standing in a development area like wasteland. This story is based on a mysterious landscape that Yokota found in his daily life. The texture of 8 mm film makes us feel nostalgia for the good old days.
