One of post-war Japan’s most prominent writers Nakagami Kenji passed away in 1992. His novels and essays express his strong attachment to his homeland Kishu, a mountainous region with a dramatic shoreline opening to the Pacific Ocean. The street alley was another prominent motif in his writings. Aoyama combines Nakagami’s 16mm footage of Kishu and the alleys of its towns with new images shot with cinematographer Tamura Masaki to follow the path of Nakagami’s life and art. Screenwriter Izuchi Kishu travels along with the camera on this cinematic essay.
