Campaign Senkyo = Campaign
Barcode: 58961007
Call Number: DQ-68832
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 120 min.
Date: 2007
Language: Japanese
Creator: Directed by Soda Kazukiro
Description: Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party? This cinema-verite documentary closely follows a heated campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the inner-workings of the Japanese political machine. In the fall of 2005, 40-year-old, self-employed Kazuhiko "Yama-san" Yamauchi's peaceful, humdrum life was turned upside-down. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had suddenly chosen him as its official candidate to run for a vacant seat on the Kawasaki city council. Yama-san had zero experience in politics, no charisma, no supporters, no constituency, and no time to prepare for the impending election.
Collection: Language Resource Center