PODCAST | Simone Soranna interviews Katsuya Tomita, director of the documentary Tenzo.
Katsuya Tomita, Tenzo‘s director, tells us how this project was born and explain us the relation between documentary film and fiction film.
Tenzo: To address the social crisis, Chiken – a buddhist monk – throws himself into various tasks such as a suicide helpline, in his temple in Yamanashi. In Fukushima, his old mate Ryûgyô – whose temple was wrecked by the tsunami – lives in a portacabin and works on construction sites.