Red Persimmons
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Director: Shinsuke Ogawa , Peng Xiaoli
2004 / 90min / DCP
A contemplative, delicately observed, radiantly colorful documentary depiction of the growing, harvesting, and packaging of persimmons in the small Japanese village of Kaminoyama, Ogawa’s film is both a wistful, warm-hearted record of an “outmoded” kind of agrarian existence and a sumptuous celebration of the natural world. Though Ogawa began shooting Red Persimmons in the late ’80s, his eulogy for an outmoded way of life only completed after his death—with elegance and intelligence—by his gifted, Chinese-born acolyte Xiaolian Peng.
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