Manchurian Sleepwalkers
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY:
Thomas Lahusen
Canada, 63 min
Chemodan Films, 2018
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With the passage of time, remembering becomes a form of sleepwalking. One-time émigrés of Manchuria and its legendary city, Harbin, take us on a journey of memory back to China. For many -- Russians, Poles, Germans and Japanese -- who left the country of the “last emperor” during the late 1940s and 50s, remembering borders on obsession. For Kumiko Muraoka, a Japanese-French poet, only forgetting alleviates the pain of having lost her childhood home.
Screenings:
The Archaeology Channel (TAC) International Film Festival (Eugene, Oregon, May 1-5, 2019). Prizes: Honorable Mention, Music; Special mention, Cultural Change.
Film presentation, International Council for Central and East European Studies, Montreal, 7 August, 2021.
FIlm festival of the Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars, 24-28 August 2021.