The Hidden Festival

The Hidden Festival (1998)

Drama

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.

Director: Taku Shinjo
Writer: Shintarō Ishihara

Casts

	Mitsuko Baisho as
	Gitan Ohtsuru as
	Norihei Miki as
	Hiroshi Katsuno as
	Yoshizumi Ishihara as
	Takashi Tsumura as
	Sakae Umezu as
	Hirotaro Honda as
	Takahiro Tamura as
	Kōjirō Hongō as
	Rinshô Kadekaru as

Crew