Japan Week | Screening: Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors of Japan

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Date(s): Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time: 5:30pm-7:45pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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arving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan. Produced, written, and directed by Yujiro Seki, this documentary tells the authentic story of busshi, Japan’s Buddhist sculptors. For more than a millennium, Japanese people have confronted the suffering and meaning of life through this magnificent art.

Carving the Divine has become the official selection for 33 film festivals, showing in a total of 22 countries, and has won awards at 13 festivals worldwide, including winning Best Director for a Foreign Language Documentary at World Cinema Milan and premiering at the Raindance Film Festival in London.

Following the screening there will be a Q&A with the writer, producer, and director Yujiro Seki.

This 100-minute documentary is not rated.

For teens & adults. Held in 4th Floor Meeting Room

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