Manzan benigaki

The ostensible subject of this film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their villages persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away. The films larger subject, however, is the disappearance of Japans traditional culture, the end of a centuries-old way of life.