https://plasticlovefilm.com PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:33:56 +0000 https://plasticlovefilm.com en https://plasticlovefilm.com/Landing-Page Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:02:42 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Landing-Page https://plasticlovefilm.com/Story Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:10:58 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Story Story Through the interwoven stories of Japan’s waste workers and packaging artisans, we journey into the country’s world of trash and care for materials. From the city’s character-clad garbage trucks and towering incinerators to the serene studios of countryside artisans, the film paints a portrait of a nation caught between the wisdom of its past and its culture of excess. It shows how Japan’s devotion to wrapping — once a gesture of respect and refinement — has spiraled into an addiction to disposability. Both meditative and urgent, PLASTIC LOVE! asks what we choose to throw away, what we preserve, and what it will take to save us from a plastic-wrapped future… PLASTIC LOVE! Unwrapping Japan’s Toxic Affair With PlasticDocumentary FilmLength: 90minOriginal Language: JapaneseSubtitles: Japanese, English https://plasticlovefilm.com/Visuals Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:02:42 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Visuals https://plasticlovefilm.com/Cast Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:02:42 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Cast Cast <img width="2500" height="1250" width_o="2500" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e2aa6d2ed62005a536539a580add7817b4b662fad582598d0c4f3749c77b6db/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills11.jpg" data-mid="95902222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e2aa6d2ed62005a536539a580add7817b4b662fad582598d0c4f3749c77b6db/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills11.jpg" /> MAMORU KAMATA — Fisherman MICHINAO SUENAGA— Director of Tsushima CAPPA <img width="1898" height="949" width_o="1898" height_o="949" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6066cfc562aee5197ada79e49bae7750528254d033107723a539a647493165ee/2024Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills1-4.jpg" data-mid="232934615" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6066cfc562aee5197ada79e49bae7750528254d033107723a539a647493165ee/2024Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills1-4.jpg" /> YUJI SAKAI —Straw Artisan, Nagano <img width="2500" height="1250" width_o="2500" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be6cda5c1356bad6a976b903ec305732189226ab3bef53f0ef8ced13560a4d1b/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills1-10.jpg" data-mid="103709493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be6cda5c1356bad6a976b903ec305732189226ab3bef53f0ef8ced13560a4d1b/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills1-10.jpg" /> AKIRA SAKANO —President of Zero Waste Japan <img width="3188" height="1641" width_o="3188" height_o="1641" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f5984da11cf4415a75ee835e7da57b65ad80dace32a8de83ecf90a4cb294afb/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-17.04.56.jpg" data-mid="169981131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f5984da11cf4415a75ee835e7da57b65ad80dace32a8de83ecf90a4cb294afb/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-17.04.56.jpg" /> KOMICHI IKEDA —Exec. Vice Director, Environmental Research Institute (ERI) <img width="4095" height="2058" width_o="4095" height_o="2058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3eab0b80ea20b15b063ebd5b72d538a35ffc70220cedf52be049c9f610f03a64/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills43.jpg" data-mid="113431564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3eab0b80ea20b15b063ebd5b72d538a35ffc70220cedf52be049c9f610f03a64/2021Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills43.jpg" /> YUZURU OIKAWA — Zama City, Garbage Truck Driver TAISUKE SATO — Zama City, Garbage Truck Driver <img width="2499" height="1243" width_o="2499" height_o="1243" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2033b85916ee56a1c29d81c79a458e7dcda83fa24ed2fecf558fbc8a1cded78/2020Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills8.jpg" data-mid="91041900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2033b85916ee56a1c29d81c79a458e7dcda83fa24ed2fecf558fbc8a1cded78/2020Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills8.jpg" />TOMOMI YAMAGUCHI —Resident, Kamikatsu Town <img width="1898" height="949" width_o="1898" height_o="949" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e176299bc640e2f87281379994be1e4417c4467cadd9c76e27d2d1f9ece0c4c8/2024Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills9-2.jpg" data-mid="232934626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e176299bc640e2f87281379994be1e4417c4467cadd9c76e27d2d1f9ece0c4c8/2024Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills9-2.jpg" />TOHRU TSUJI—Lacquer Artist, Ibaraki <img width="4096" height="2048" width_o="4096" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c82bfd7851cf4092868606ed42e8eb3d890e23285797d154cf68cd220812b404/2025-PLASTIC-LOVE-Still-3.jpg" data-mid="241254662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c82bfd7851cf4092868606ed42e8eb3d890e23285797d154cf68cd220812b404/2025-PLASTIC-LOVE-Still-3.jpg" />ETSUKO YAMADA —Furoshiki Artist <img width="1731" height="865" width_o="1731" height_o="865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71d3cd024df2efb0fd1e02ec15b79538db3ed346e08fa8e0e4d18072b02da24d/2020Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills38.jpg" data-mid="91974455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71d3cd024df2efb0fd1e02ec15b79538db3ed346e08fa8e0e4d18072b02da24d/2020Plastic-Love-Temporary-Stills38.jpg" /> MASARU OKAMOTO —Waste Worker, Minato Resource Recycling Center ...and many more https://plasticlovefilm.com/Filmmakers-Statement Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:35:36 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Filmmakers-Statement Filmmakers’ Statement I have this image on my phone that will forever be burned into my memory. It is a photo taken of a small piece of silver jewelry, yet in this picture you cannot see the jewelry itself. Instead, it shows the 9 layers of packaging waste that resulted in my tiny purchase: 6 layers of plastic, two layers of paper and one giant cardboard box, all carefully wrapped around a needle-sized earring, shipped to my home.&nbsp; Japan is unique in the sense that the amount of single-use plastic here is enormous; yet few people seem to question why single bananas and single cookies are individually wrapped in plastic, or why Japan still burns the majority of its waste, instead of recycling it. We have been talking about plastic waste for years now, yet why have we still not moved any closer to a global solution? I think the core of the problem is best described as a bathtub overflowing with water. We are so desperately preoccupied with scooping up the water with small buckets that we have forgotten to turn our attention to the only thing that will actually solve this issue: switching off the tap at its source. Making this film, I realized that this whole time it wasn’t plastic that was ever the issue. The issue is, and has always been, our attachment to a life full of things. A world in which we tell each other that it is okay to use an item once for just a few seconds and then simply throw it away. A world in which the more we consume, the happier we seem to be. One thing I want us all to remember is this: On our Earth, it isn’t possible to “throw away” garbage, because there is no such place as “away.” I hope that through PLASTIC LOVE! we can show you the many places in Japan that have become our so-called “away” — our excuse for continuing our system of mass-scale consumption. I want to draw attention to the people behind this big story. In the three years of pulling together this film, we have held the gaze of waste workers unwilling to believe that their voices matter. We have noticed the soft slippers worn by incinerator operators, and the tender care trash collectors wash their trucks down with at the end of each day. We have met Japan’s community of social changemakers — often young and female — who have a bold vision for Japan that, I know, can lead us all out of this crisis. Japan is my chosen home, the place that I love more than anywhere else in the world. It is painful to admit the failings of the place you care about the most, and also how I, myself, am contributing to this toxic system. But PLASTIC LOVE! is more than just this journey of discovery. It is also my love story with Japan itself. As with any great love, looking at the issues can be painful. This film is a way to express some of this pain, but also a way to share my hope and show you that Japan already has all the tools it needs to fix this issue: the resourcefulness, creativity and endless dedication of its own people. A Japanese love story for the world. — Sybilla Director, PLASTIC LOVE! https://plasticlovefilm.com/Center-Photos-2 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:33:56 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Center-Photos-2 &nbsp; https://plasticlovefilm.com/Plastic-Facts Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:36:08 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Plastic-Facts <img width="1337" height="1673" width_o="1337" height_o="1673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b3d4226d895213dc22b22aeffede306f9a25cb090c611308b273b4ed4da2fbe/Plastic-Love-Facts-Examples-copy.png" data-mid="173768359" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b3d4226d895213dc22b22aeffede306f9a25cb090c611308b273b4ed4da2fbe/Plastic-Love-Facts-Examples-copy.png" /> https://plasticlovefilm.com/Center-Photos Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:47:28 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Center-Photos &nbsp; https://plasticlovefilm.com/Team Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:02:43 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Team Team SYBILLA PATRIZIA—Director, DoP, EditorSybilla Patrizia is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Tokyo. Sybilla filmed VICE’s ‘The Dark Side of Manga’ which won a News&amp;Documentary Emmy in 2023. Her short film ‘A Color I Named Blue’ about two Japanese indigo dyers premiered in competition at Sheffield DocFest, Palm Springs, and DC/DOX in 2025. ‘Toma Unrestored’ about a couple who revives a forgotten Japanese priest house into an art space in Nara, premiered on NOWNESS in 2025. She also served as Japan Unit Director on ‘Our New World’, a feature documentary about communities around the world adapting to climate change, featuring Japan’s Ama free divers and their fight to save disappearing seaweed beds. Sybilla is currently in post-production of her feature film “PLASTIC LOVE!“ which deals with the global waste issue through the eyes of Japan’s traditional packaging artists and waste workers. ︎︎︎Website CLEMENTINE NUTTALL—Creative ProducerClementine Nuttall is a British interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a background in craft and education, whose range of projects all advocate for material literacy and explore the human role in the material life cycle. Her work has been exhibited and screened worldwide. The short “Unbroken” that she produced with Patrizia explored her work in the field and won Best Film at the 2019 Ginza Short Film Contest. In the UK she worked extensively for the Royal Household and received several prizes including the Winston Churchill Fellowship and the Japanese Ministry of Culture Scholarship. Her work has been profiled in a variety of print media, on the BBC television series ‘Living the Dream’ and in the books ‘Protecting the Sacred Space’ and ‘Hermès Japon Social Good Book’. ︎︎︎Website KAORI SAKANO— Producer, FAB Inc. Kaori used to work as a producer for a film studio, KADOKAWA Inc. During her years there, she produced a fiction feature film “Roadside Fugitive” (2012), “Recipes of Diet Diaries” (2013) and a documentary feature film, “Tasha Tudor, A Still Water Story” (2017). Recently, Kaori produced “My Retirement, My Life” (2018), 'Intimate Stranger (2022)'.EMI UEYAMA—Associate Producer, ARTicle Films Emi Ueyama is the founder of ARTicle Films and a producer whose films have screened at Berlinale, Hot Docs and IFFR. Her films include, "The Legacy of Frida Kahlo" which screened at international festivals such as Hot Docs and Guadalajara IFF the short doc “TOKYO KURDS", which screened at Hot Docs, NETPAC Asian FF, and 20 other film festivals. Fumiari Hyuga’s "I am a comedian" was selected for the DMZ Industry Rough Cut Presentation and Cannes Docs, Doc in Progress, and had its world premiere at DMZ and the Tokyo International Festival. She also produced "Film Fetish" which premiered at IFFR and Jeonju International Film Festival and “Voices of the Silenced” which screened at Busan IFF and Berlin Forum. Production Coordinator, Translator —NAOTO JOHN TANAKA Sound Recording — PAUL DOROSHEVICH Production Support—TOMOHIRO ISHIINORIKO KOIZUMEHARUKA YOSHITOMEMUTSUMI NISHIICOREY TULPIN Crowdfunding Support —CHEMA SARRIMERVE OZDEMIRGEMMA HOLMESCHUNNI CHIU https://plasticlovefilm.com/Team-Photo-copy Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:55:05 +0000 PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film https://plasticlovefilm.com/Team-Photo-copy <img width="4032" height="1723" width_o="4032" height_o="1723" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b736622f6a9be699d0a25331c52a970c293118f870f40f3a1b8220d3d0ec1624/IMG_2040-copy.JPEG" data-mid="91983634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b736622f6a9be699d0a25331c52a970c293118f870f40f3a1b8220d3d0ec1624/IMG_2040-copy.JPEG" />