Synopsis

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said, “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

Ryo Orikasa

Animator Ryo Orikasa (1986, Ibaraki) lives and works in Montreal. He graduated from Ibaraki University, College of Education, in 2009, and from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Film and New Media, Department of Animation, in 2011. He was awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government, 2015.