Introduction
The village of Higashi Yoshino is known as the place where the extinct Japanese wolves were last seen over 100 years ago. Carlos and his writer partner Abel Arcos visited the village for the first time in March 2015, and spent a month there to research about the village and write an original screenplay. They were inspired by the story of the extinct Japanese wolves as well as the movie "La Novia De Cuba," the story about a Japanese sailor who falls in love with a Cuban revolutionist, and the new film "The Wolves of the East" is positioned as a sequal to "La Novia De Duba." A highly distinguished Japanese actor Tatsuya Fuji plays the main charactor Akira, along with other professional and non-professional actors including some local villagers.
Story
Higashi Yoshino village resident Akira (Fuji Tatsuya) becomes so obsessed with the phantasmal Japanese wolves that he loses his job and his friends. Consumed by delusional fantasies about the wolves and recollections of his travels to Cuba, Akira heads ever deeper into the Yoshino woods.
Detail
Director: Carlos M. Quintela (Cuba)
Location: Higashiyoshino Village, Nara
Japan, Uk, Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba / 2017 / DCP / 79min / Japanese with English subtitle
Distribution
Director
Carlos M. Quintela
Born in 1984 in Havana, Cuba. Received degree in Mass Media from Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana. Studied screenwriting at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in San Antonio de los Baños. Wrote and directed several award-winning short films.
History
2016
Nara Internatinal Film Festival 2016
2017
Tokyo International Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
2018
Theatrical release at Japan
World Cinema Amsterdam
Yoshino Japan Heritage Symposium in Shinjuku
LOCATION
Higashi-Yoshino Village
The ancient capital city of Japan "Nara".Among them, Higashi-Yoshino village is located in the east part of Yoshino which has Japanese history and myths .It is a natural rich mountain village surrounded by Yoshino cedar of Japan's three great beautiful forests, nurtured by the Takamigawa River and the Shigogawa River, the rich flow of the Yoshinogawa River. Extinct japanese wolf which people afraid as a vertex of food chain, was living to the end there, it is also the place where the "Tenchu Gumi" finished too early as a pioneering for the Meiji Restoration that triggered the growth of Japan as one of the world's leading powers. However, now under the creative village concept, that young people move to and settled villages is increasing.
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