Rokkoku Kitchen
- JAPAN / 2025 / Japanese / Color / DCP / 122 min
Directors: Kawauchi Ario and Miyoshi Daisuke
Photography, Sound: Miyoshi Daisuke
Editing: Kawauchi Ario, Miyoshi Daisuke
Producers: Watanabe Yoichi, Miyamoto Hidemi
Production Company, Source: UEDA PRINTING Co.
National Route 6, or ‘Rokkoku,’ runs from Tokyo to Miyagi via Chiba, Ibaraki, and Fukushima prefectures. After the nuclear incident, residents were forced to evacuate from some areas. The film turns its camera on daily life and ways of living in towns along the Rokkoku—such as Okuma, Futaba, and Minamisoma—approaching the subject through the lens of food.
Kawauchi Ario
After working in the field of international cooperation while based in the US, Japan, and France, Kawauchi became a nonfiction writer. She is the author of many books, including Me no mienai Shiratori-san to art wo miniiku (Shueisha, 2021) and Sora wo yuku kyojin (Shueisha, 2022). Co-director of the film, Blind Mr. Shiratori Goes to See Art (2022).
Miyoshi Daisuke
After graduating from university, Miyoshi worked for production and advertising companies before going independent. While teaching filmmaking at university, he has been developing regional films throughout Japan, which are made by collecting visual records of ordinary people. He is also the co-chairman of Manazashi no archive, a general incorporated association. Co-director of the film Blind Mr. Shiratori Goes to See Art (2022).
Screening and Round-table Discussion
Filming, Watching, and Discussing Documentary footage
from the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Rain Disaster
Supported by: noto records-
The Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture was hit by an earthquake on January 1, 2024 and torrential rains in September of the same year. A movement has been launched to record the landscapes and the activities of people from the past that are being overwritten by restoration and reconstruction. In Cinema with Us, which was launched after the Great East Japan Earthquake, we will view this footage, reflect on Noto, and consider the meaning of recording and passing on such memories.
Date: Oct 13 (Mon) 11:00–15:00
Venue: Yamagata Creative City Center Q1 (2-C) (Capacity: 30 seats, free admission, no English interpretation)
Speakers: Komori Haruka (Filmmaker), Seo Natsumi (Artist, Writer), Saikai Kazusa (Project Leader, Suzu Record Center; Filmmaker), Ogawa Naoto (Program Coordinator; Curator, Sendai Mediatheque) and others
311 Documentary Film Archive
YIDFF’s 311 Documentary Film Archive collects, catalogs, preserves and provides access to documentary films and related materials about the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The archive is in the Yamagata Documentary Film Library, where visitors are able to watch the films at video booths. For more information please see the link below.
For more information 
YIDFF “311 Documentary Film Archive” website