Temple Family (movie)
テンプルファミリー- Production country: Japan, United States of America
- Producer: Ema Ryan Yamazaki
- Production companies: Cineric Creative, NHK
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 6/26/2021
- Run time: 30 min.
Movie description
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.
