Okoru Saigyou

Okoru Saigyou

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 9, 2010

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

怒る西行

Production Companies

YYK Production

Director

Isao Okishima

Description

Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots, was going to be closed to make way for a new road, he gathered his crew to document the scenery. Okishima gives accounts of various painters, writers, and manga artists, as well as his personal take on Saigyo, the traveling poet and Buddhist priest of the late Heian Period.