Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Australian National University, Documentary Australia Foundation, Screen Canberra, Screen Australia, Ronin Films
Japarta on the Web:Official Website
Japarta
Movie"A Japanese student is tasked by Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory to take their story to the world."
1 hr 39 minDocumentary
The story of a Japanese scholar, Minoru Hokari, who, before his death in 2004 at the age of 32, achieved work which today commands an ever-widening audience. It is a story of cross-cultural understanding, how Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory tasked Minoru to relay stories from their culture to a wider world.
StarringMinoru Hokari