Las damas de Kimoto

Toyono, Hana, Fumio and Hanako. Four generations of women and a single constant in their lives: the flow of the waters of a river that has seen them born, grow and become wives, mothers, grandmothers... and the youngest also working women. On its journey to the ocean, the Ki -short, vertiginous and wide like most Japanese rivers- crosses a landscape of mountains and villages, dams and rice fields where the laws and customs of the most traditional Japan prevail. Between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th, almost sixty years of history are captured in the delicate pages of this beautiful family saga: the end of the Meiji era, the Sino-Japanese war, World War II and its devastating wake... Major events that leave their mark on the daily lives of these four women, divided between tradition and modernity, whose stories and decisions make up an elegant and accurate portrait of the situation of women in Japan.