Cries of the Crane

Country / Region

Japan

Year

2020

Producer

SAKAMOTO Hideki

Director

NUMATA Hiromitsu

Time

47min

Language

Japanese with English Subtitles

Production

Hokkaido Television Broadcasting

Distribution

A farmer in Naganuma town in Hokkaido has begun activities to bring back the Japanese crane that had been gone more than 100 years ago. The scheme was to revive the waterlines in the retarding basin created as against flood and to breed cranes. As the vacant land gradually turned into a wetland, different animals came and conversely caused agricultural damage. There were also cases that a photographer with bad manners chased a crane. Meanwhile, two miraculous cranes descended.