Chikako Yamashiro receives prize at international film festival for Mud Man, which depicts the anguish of bearing military bases

Chikako Yamashiro receives prize at international film festival for Mud Man, which depicts the anguish of bearing military bases

Chikako Yamashiro after being awarded the Zonta Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen on May 7 (Japan time) in Gemany. (Photograph provided by Yamashiro)


May 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

On May 8 the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen was held in Oberhausen, Germany.

There, artist and filmmaker Chikako Yamashiro from Naha City, Okinawa was awarded the Zonta Prize for female filmmakers, for her film Mud Man (Tsuchi no Hito).

The film festival was established in 1954 and over its 64 instances it has come to be a historic festival.

This year about 7,300 works were entered in the festival.

Yamashiro said, “I truly feel great joy that my work was acknowledged out of a lineup of beautiful, splendid films containing globally insightful points of view.”

Yamashiro was awarded the Zonta Prize and her work was assessed in the following terms: “In a visually stunning and sensual work, the filmmaker explores war and its traumatic consequences, serious and funny at the same time.

Original and innovative, cinematic storytelling in the best sense of the term.”

The movie version of Mud Man (2017) takes place on Jeju Island in South Korea and in Okinawa.

It is a film that incorporates allegories in order to depict the anguish of regions that bear U.S. military bases.

In September last year Yamashiro was selected to receive the first ever Asian Art Award for Mud Man.

From June 2 through June 15, Sakurazaka Theater will be hosting special screenings of Mud Man with Chikako Yamashiro and film director Kei Shichiri.

(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)

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