PROJECTS: Cloud Over the Hill

The 260-year old shogunate collapses and Meiji Japan is born as a modern state. The country is a young country surrounded by the mature Western powers at the height of imperialism. There are three men in Iyonomatsuyama, Shikoku. They are the Akiyama brothers, Saneyuki (Motoki Masahiro) and Yoshifuru (Abe Hiroshi) and Masaoka Shiki (Kagawa Teruyuki), who represents modern Japanese literature. Men who will play big roles in Meiji Japan’s greatest crisis, the Russo-Japanese War.