A Town and a Tall Chimney
(2019)
★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 130 мин
Country: Japan
Director: 松村克弥
Cast: Asato Ide, 渡辺大, 小島梨里杏, 吉川晃司, Тацуя Накадай, Shinya Owada, Ayako Kobayashi, 渡辺裕之, 六平直政, Мицунори Исаки
Plot
Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, the environment is so polluted that the plants in the fields die and the air, which is laden with toxic smoke, can no longer be breathed. But Saburo, the grandson of the village elder, can no longer put up with this and forms the resistance of the villagers. In Junpei, the idealistic employee of Hitachi, he finds an unexpected ally, and together they fight for a way to save the village.