“Follows an 800-year-old family-run temple in Kyoto as it struggles to balance tradition with progress in order to thrive in the 21st century.”
The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would seem to belie its long history. But in order for the family-run temple to thrive in the 21st century, it must continue to reinvent itself. Intimately following future head priest Scion (30) along with his fiancée Haruka and firstborn sister Ariya, critically-acclaimed director Ema Ryan Yamazaki captures one unexpected corner of Japanese society's struggle to balance tradition with progress.
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Ema Ryan Yamazaki Director · Shiori Ito Cinematographer James Morimoto Yuya Cinematographer
United States release July 1, 2021 · Produced in Japan, United States · Languages English, Japanese
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Cineric Creative
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NHK
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Japan · United States
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Original title
テンプルファミリー
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 26, 2021
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United States · July 1, 2021
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