A Japanese teenager was killed while surfing in Hawaii. His single mother Sachi flies to Hanalei Bay and confronts this sudden loss. Since then for ten years, Sachi visits the island every year in the same season and stays a couple of weeks to reconnect with her estranged son. Sachi can’t fill in the gap of an unbearable distance after all, but one day she meets with two young surfers about the same age as her son when he died.
„When I read “Hanalei Bay”, various events that happened in my life came across my mind. Eight years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on 11 March, 2011. Since that day, I have been living with apprehensive feelings toward a number of things. I also feel anxiety and anger towards a society which keeps moving forward while the radiation issue remains unsolved. I am convinced there is no way for humans to conquer nature. Natural disasters took away the lives of countless people. We can hardly imagine the suffering of their family and friends.“
Daishi Matsunaga
Program
- 14.03.2019
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