Tenshin

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Movie Info

Director: Katsuya Matsumura
Cast: Naoto Takenaka,Shidou Nakamura,Hiroyuki Hirayama,Houka Kinoshita,Ichiro Hashimoto
Producer: Masaki Hoshika,Takashi Komoto,Yuji Kinoshita
Executive Produce: Akiyuki Miyamoto,Sumie Miyamoto
Script: Masayoshi Azuma,Katsuya Matsumura
Director of Photography: Ryu Segawa
Production Designer: Noriyoshi Ikeya
Edit: Akimasa Kawashima
Light: Munenori Sato
Composer: Hideya Nakazaki
Theme Music: Tatuya Ishii

Synopsis

The Will to Beauty.(this is a reference to Nietzche's "The Will to Power" - it is good because it suggests that Okakura was very stubborn and the period is the same for Nietzche. This would be catchy for a foreign audience. )

Tenshin Okakura left the great achievement to the Japanese modern art. This is a story of Tenshin's life and conflict and teacher-student love between Tenshin, who rediscovered art of Japan and tried to produce new beauty in Meiji period, and his young pupils, Taikan Yokoyama, Shunsou Hishida, Kanzan Shimomura, Buzan Kimura.

2013 is the 150th anniversary of Tenshin Okakura's birth and the 100th anniversary after his death.

In the Film Tenshin, the beautiful nature of Japan which Tenshin had loved all his life was shot, and the movie Tenshin will bring cheer to Japan and all over the world.

Shidou Nakamura

Biography of Tenshin Okakura

Naoto Takenaka

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