STORY
奈良県斑鳩町。お寺の隣に丸太を利用したテントが建つ。ひと月前にテント内で映画の上映会が催された。上映会を企画したのは花岡由紀。隣にあるお寺の娘であり、今は東京にて映像作家として活動している。上映されたのは過去に村で撮影された記録映画。観客となったのは現在も村で暮らす人々だった。
上映は終わり今はテントを解体するばかり。しかし由紀は東京に帰ろうとはせず、実家であるお寺に身を寄せていた。由紀は夫との間に子供を授かっていて、夫婦間の問題により出産の踏ん切りがつかずにいたのだ。
お寺では由紀の兄である史郎が住職を務めている。史郎は若くして妻を亡くしてひとり暮らし。「早う東京に戻らんと」史郎は由紀を促すが、ふたりの時間を慈しんでいるようにも見える。 そこに東京より由紀の夫である悟がやってきて。
由紀を巡るドラマと、テントでの上映会を記録したドキュメンタリーが交錯。仏教的な時間が現出する。
Hi no youni
Here is Ikaruga in Nara.
A tent is built with logs beside a temple, in which a movie was shown a month ago.
It was projected by Yuki Hanaoka who is a daughter from the temple and working as an image creator in Tokyo.
The movie shown in the tent is a documentary filmed in the village before.
People living in the village were the audience of the show.
The show ends and there is nothing for the tent but to be taken down.
However, Yuki is not likely to go back to Tokyo, but to stay at the temple, her parents’ house.
Yuki is pregnant, but she cannot decide to have a baby for a problem between herself and her husband.
Her brother, Shiro is a priest of the temple.
His wife passed away when they were still young, and he has lived alone.
“You should be back to Tokyo soon,” he suggests her to go home, while it seems that he treasures the time with his sister.
Then Satoru, Yuki’s husband, comes to visit the temple from Tokyo...
In this film, Yuki’s story and the documentary movie shown at the tent are interwoven, and the Buddhist time is emerged.
