Tired of the monotonous white-collar life in the megacity. Instead, they prefer to climb into the rice field with rubber boots. An “NZZ Format” about young Tokyo women who courageously turn their lives upside down and give an aging mountain village new courage to face life.
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Tamami Shigitani never thought that she would one day become a farmer in a remote mountain village. The 38-year-old lived in Tokyo, a city of 38 million, and was stuck in the Tokyo employee corset. She wasn’t happy about it.
Nine years ago chance brought her to the rice bowl of Japan. Here she met people who do not consume, but produce and shape their day themselves. In rubber boots and work gloves, Tamami fell in love with a village, nature and a man. It was the first marriage in Ishidani in over forty years.
Fascinated by the knowledge of the ancients, Tamami absorbs everything like a sponge. She learns everything about rice cultivation and the wild vegetable plants on the mountain slopes. Time is of the essence: Almost everyone on site is well over seventy.
An “NZZ Format” from Japan about the courage of a young woman to turn her life – and her sleeves – and the consequences for an entire village.
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