NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 2 Episode 6 - The Fisherman and the Forest
On March 11, 2011, a huge tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake struck Japan's northeastern coast, including Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture. All life vanished from the sea. In despair, an oyster farmer named Shigeatsu Hatakeyama decided to rebuild his life. Though a fisherman, he also spent decades reforesting the surrounding hills and was sure the sea would recover. This program starts following Hatakeyama just after the disaster, showing how the sea and the forest are cleansed through mutual interaction. Featuring his moving monologue, it celebrates the miracle of resurrected life in a seaside village.
Episodes in Season 2
One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
49 min
Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
50 min
Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
49 min
Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
49 min
Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
The Fisherman and the Forest
50 min
Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
50 min
Tsuruko's Tea Journey
50 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
49 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
49 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
26 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
25 min
Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
49 min
I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
49 min
A Life with Flowers
50 min
Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
50 min
Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
43 min
Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
49 min
A World of Boisterous Silence
50 min
Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
50 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
49 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
49 min
An 18-Year-Old's Departure
47 min
The Pianist in the Rubble
49 min
Manzanar Revealed
49 min
