Synopse

Kamagasaki is an 'invisible' slum that's attracted day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When developers move in, the local authorities see their chance to get rid of the slum. They team up with a gang and harass the residents. A boy, Kantaro, loses his dad in a mysterious fire and moves in with a prostitute and a pickpocket. When Kantaro picks up the gang's treasured cauldron, the thugs gather a pile of pots and cauldrons in their efforts to find it, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki

Regie

LEO SATO (*1981) is a political activist and in 2009 made his first documentary about the expulsion of homeless people. The Kamagasaki Cauldron War is his debut feature film, which took five years to make and was largely financed by donations.

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