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Cycle again

When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck in 2011, the director was far from home and cycled 200 kilometers to get home. He came up with the idea of cycling 200 kilometers along the coast of Indonesia, the area hit by the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, in the same way he had cycled in Tohoku. What he saw there was a completely different picture of reconstruction than in Japan.

  • Atsushi Kadowaki
    Director
  • Atsushi Kadowaki
    Writer
  • Yuichi Watanabe
    Producer
  • Atsushi Kadowaki
    Key Cast
  • Ali Wong
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 15, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    1,000,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Indonesia, Japan
  • Language:
    English, Indonesian, Japanese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Atsushi Kadowaki

Born in Sendai City in 1969. Graduated from the Arabic Department of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1992.
Since 1995, he has been engaged in art activities centered on painting, but since joining the art project in Sendai in 2003, he has been pursuing the possibility of art as communication, and has been doing art projects all over Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, based on those experiences, he has been working on handing down the earthquake and revitalizing the community through art. From 2016, he started an art project that connects Japan and Aceh, Indonesia, which was affected by the Sumatra earthquake, with art. He started making documentaries by riding a bicycle 200 kilometers along the coasts of Aceh and Tohoku, which were severely damaged by the tsunami, and shooting videos of the people he met and the sights he saw on the way. Since many Indonesian labors live in Japan, he is working on a project to create a place for interaction with the citizens and Indonesian while shooting their daily lives. From 2021, he started a community art project "Strangers in Sendai" to shoot the "strangers" in Sendai with multiple directors.

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