MY LIFE IN JAPAN a blog from kyoto for friends and family

I just attended the 3rd annual kyoto deaf film festival. It was a small affair but I got to meet some very interesting Japanese Deaf, and with a little help from Yukie translating and what ASL and english they knew we were able to communicate not to poorly. They showed some rare and priceless footage of a japanese deaf film that was made in what I believe was the 50's??? It was a fascinating piece of Deaf culture..like deaf japanese men doing kimono dances (men performing as women is a cultural tradition here). We also saw a movie called URO (deaf, backwards), and the director spoke.


I stood out quite a bit, and I got interviewed...TWICE...though they couldn't tell me when I might be on. I really didn't want to attract too much attention, but it was a small festival that day, maybe 20 people, so it was natural.



click here for a video clip I took of the films at the festival. (warning slow to load)

Labels: deaf, film, URO, video