NIGHT LIGHTS OF NISHINARI
A short film about Nishinari, the area of Osaka’s homless.
amemura | cherry blossom | fukushima | japan | kamagasaki | momiji | sakura | shinsaibashi | tattoo | tsunami
SOMETHING ABOUT JAPAN
Japan. Cherry blossom, sushi, the bullet train. The usual picture of a geisha, real or a fake. The usual stereotypes. Since my first time in Japan, almost twenty years have passed. For almost eight years I have been living there. I cannot count how many times italian friends asked me if I was tired of sushi…
japan | kamagasaki | nishinari
KAMAGASAKI
If you get the subway at Shinsaibashi, in few stops you reach Dōbutsuen-mae station. When you get out, Osaka’s landscape has completely changed.No more trendy young people doing “bura-bura” (hanging out), Shinsaibashi’s and Dōtonbori’s big billboards are gone, department stores turned suddenly into small old fashioned shops.Walk a few hundreds meter south and you are…