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Movie poster: Genpin (2010)
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2010 · 92 min Documentary
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).

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Original Title 玄牝
Year 2010
Country Japan
Genre Documentary
Director Naomi Kawase
Runtime 92 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (4 votes)

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The film constructs its observation through minimalism and long takes, dissolving the boundary between documentary and meditation. It relies on the absence of commentary, allowing the images and sounds of the forest to speak for themselves.

What lingers after viewing is a profound sense of quiet reverence for birth as an elemental, natural process, rather than a medical event. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Naomi Kawase

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Watch in complete silence to fully absorb the forest's ambient soundscape.

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