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JAPANESE KUJAWIAK

POLISH TITLE: JAPOŃSKI KUJAWIAK

The Japanese love more than just Chopin. For over 40 years, Yoshiaki Oka has been running a Polish folk dance school in Tomonoura, where the polonaise, oberek and kujawiak have brought together generations – the oldest active participants are now over 90. It was this very passion that led him to meet his long-awaited wife, Yumiko, while the workshops he organised with Polish instructors reached across the whole of Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Enriched with Oka’s priceless archival materials and excerpts from Japanese television programmes, the film tells a story of love for Polish tradition that transcends continents, languages and cultures.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
53'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Dagmara Furgał
SCRIPT:
Dagmara Furgał
DOP:
Yori Fabian, Nicolas Villegas Hernandez, Jacek Kowalski
EDITOR:
Tymek Wiskirski
PRODUCTION:
KIJORA / Anna Gawlita, Anna Gawlita, Tomasz Filiks

Dagmara Furgał »

 Since 2002, she has collaborated with Polish Television as a journalist, screenwriter, director, producer, camera operator, and editor. Her work includes documentary films, recurring TV programmes, reportages, screenplays, short promotional forms, and concert broadcasts in Poland and abroad, including Sweden, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Japan, and Uzbekistan. Since 2007 she has been a member of the European Journalism Centre (EJC), and since 2022 also of the Audiovisual Authors and Producers Association and the Authors’ Association ZAiKS.