KINDOWS 8th Open Seminar (Film Screening) “JAPANI-An Ethnographic film on Nepali immigrants in Japan and their left-behind children in Nepal”
(2020, Film Location: Nepal and Japan, Language: Nepali, Subtitle: Japanese)
[Date] March 29, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00 – 16:30 (Doors open at 13:30)
[Location] Masukawa Hall (1st floor of the Northern General Education & Research Building on the northern campus of Kyoto University Yoshida Campus) ( Map: Building #13)
(The nearest bus stop is “Kita Shirakawa” or “Kyoto University Faculty of Agriculture”)
[Admission] Free (capacity of 170)
[Registration] https://forms.gle/v2A6RsWcvH8FPBzAA
[Program]
13:30 Doors open
14:00 Greetings
14:10 Film screening
16:00 Talk: Director Dipesh Kharel (University of Tokyo)
16:30 Closing
[ Poster of this film ]
[Contact] kindows [at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
organizer
- Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (KINDOWS)
[Contents of film] (quoted from NHK BS )
A beautiful village overlooking the Himalayas. There, children whose parents went to Japan to work are called “Japanis.” Most of the workers went to Japan, and the village is full of old people and children. Most of the workers went to Japan, leaving the village full of old people and children. 9-year-old Bipisha was sent to her grandparents soon after her birth, and grew up without knowing her real parents. Her parents, who live in Tokyo, work day and night, hoping that one day they will become rich. Still, they want Bipisha to live with them, but… The film depicts the struggles of a family torn between Japan and Nepal.
Dipesh Kharel（The University of Tokyo）
Dipesh Kharel is a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and lecturer at the University of Tokyo. He has been a documentary filmmaker for nearly two decades and has produced several award-winning documentaries, notably A Life with Slate (2006), Playing with Nan (2012), and A Kali Temple Inside Out (2018). These films have been screened at over 60 international film festivals and have received numerous international awards.
His major film awards include the Best Material Cultural Film Prize at the RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (2007), the Special Mention Film Prize at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival in France (2007), the Grand Prix at the IV Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology (2008), the Best Film Prize at the RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (2013), and the David Plath Media Award from the American Anthropological Association (2014).