{"id":14665,"date":"2023-12-06T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/?post_type=news_en&#038;p=14665"},"modified":"2023-12-05T02:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:53:56","slug":"tohoku","status":"publish","type":"news_en","link":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/news_en\/project\/tohoku\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Office of Global Communications, Prime Minister\u2018s Office Tohoku recovery support video released to the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Film festival president Tetsuya Bessho introduces the short films produced through Tohoku regional collaboration<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI wanted to make a short film that captures the voices of people living in the Tohoku area after the earthquake.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>SSFF &amp; ASIA cooperated\u00a0 a short movie TOHOKU Revival: \u201cPassion, Mission, Action,\u201d in support of the reconstruction of Tohoku after the Great East Japan Earthquake, produced by the Office of Global Communications, Prime Minister\u2018s Office and introduced SSFF &amp; ASIA\u2019s production projects of short films \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c0nNvuP204I?si=wedoqvk27tqod78a\"><strong>Piece of the Future<\/strong><\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortshorts.org\/japanculturalexpo\/2021\/the-old-woman-skin\/\"><strong>The Old Woman Skin<\/strong><\/a>\u201d which were both set in Tohoku and collaborated with the local community .<\/p>\n<p>The movie had been released to the world on November 20th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TOHOKU revival: passion mission action [long version]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myI7Sh5sHbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reconstruction of Tohoku cannot be achieved with economic support and infrastructure re-development alone.\u00a0The films contain the message, \u201dIt is only through art and culture that people can have a sense of purpose in living. Art and culture have that power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the cases of the regional collaboration of Pokemon that touches people&#8217;s hearts and colors their lives through railways, parks and local specialties and the Sanriku Arts Festival, where local communities themselves stand up to create energy and excitement, SSFF &amp; ASIA\u2019s short film production with the involvement of local people are introduced in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Bessho talked about the efforts he has made to support recovery efforts through film festivals and short films saying, \u201cAs film festival organizers and actors, we thought about what we could do. I felt that because it was a film with a short production period, it would be able to project the \u201cnow\u201d of the region. I wanted to create a work that utilizes the voices of Tohoku people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14658\" src=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2487dea19bfba9f6ccb6e183174fa12c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2487dea19bfba9f6ccb6e183174fa12c.jpg 1138w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2487dea19bfba9f6ccb6e183174fa12c-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2487dea19bfba9f6ccb6e183174fa12c-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2487dea19bfba9f6ccb6e183174fa12c-740x378.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt creates happiness, its continuation becomes culture. The message concludes with the message, &#8220;Let&#8217;s create smiles together through imagination and creativity. Passion leads to mission and then action, you can see the passionate thoughts of everyone aiming to rebuild Tohoku through art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14659,"parent":0,"template":"","e_news_cat":[549,552],"class_list":["post-14665","news_en","type-news_en","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","e_news_cat-project","e_news_cat-streaming"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en\/14665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_en"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_en"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"e_news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortshorts.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/e_news_cat?post=14665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}