Temple Family
Temple Family

Temple Family

2021-06-26 | 30 min

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Haruka Ishizaki

Haruka Ishizaki

Ariya Sazaki

Ariya Sazaki

Scion Sazaki

Scion Sazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

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