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Tokyo Waka

Tokyo Waka

2013 · 63 min · ★ 6.8 · Documentary, History

The portrait of a city: ancient yet constantly remaking itself. A poem in images: stillness, patterns, urban motion. And in words: a tofu seller, a homeless woman, a Buddhist priest, contemplating nature, the metabolism of their city, mortality. And 20,000 crows, unruly avatars of the natural world, sardonically observing it all.

Directed by John Haptas

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