Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Post-War Documentary Films]
Living in a Rough Sea
(“Araumi ni ikiru: Maguro gyomin no seitai”)
1958 / B&W / 16mm / 33 min
Photography: Takei Dai, Usuda Junichi, Kikuchi Shu, Teshigahara Hiroshi
Editing: Kamei Fumio, Nishibori Michie, Osanai Haruo
Sound: Ohashi Tetsuya
Music: Nagasawa Katsutoshi
Narrator: Miyata Teru
Supervisor: Mimura Takuo (Professor, Tokyo University of Fisheries)
Producer: Ono Tadashi
Production Company, Source: Japan Document Film
The inhabitants of Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture depend on fishing for their living, but have no fishing port in their village and so use the port of Uraga in Kanagawa Prefecture as their main port. 22 crew members in a wooden boat of less than 100t fish for tuna in rough seas, 4,500 miles away from home near Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, where hydrogen bomb experiments are being carried out. The film focuses on an 18-year-old trainee and his labors aboard the fishing boat for two months, precisely reflecting the fisherman’s daily life. This film was used as an educational film to inform upper elementary through lower junior high school students about the importance of fisheries.