communicating through ropes
Jyowa is a made-up word created by Yukimura Sensei which merges the characters for “rope” and for “speaking or communicating”, hence it can be translated as “communicating through ropes” or “rope stories”. This project was started in Tokyo in 2011 as a documentary film, yet it ended up becoming more of an aesthetic experience that takes the viewer into the unique universe of five of Japan’s top rope artists (by order of appearance): Naka Akira, Yukimura Haruki, Nawashi Kanna, Urado Hiroshi and Hajime Kinoko. In each of the the five chapters we can see two people taking a journey into a deep and profound level of communication in which rope takes a very special place.
Daniel Costa Neves
Director
Pedro Diniz Reis
Director
Akira Nakata
Nozomi Mashiro
Haruki Yukimura
Sanae
Kanna Nawashi
Kagura
Kazuki Nakamura
Kinoko Hajime
Hana Jhenna
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