IDOMU II

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi For 40 years Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area Idomus Testament Sequel or IDOMU II In Saitama prefecture Chichibu city theres a mountain which was most loved by Tokugawa Ieyasu founder of Tokugawa shogunate It is Mount Buko which rose 2 hundred million years ago when the pacific plate moved the underwater volcanoes around Hawaii It is like the giant turtle shell where Myouken bodhisattva stood A gentle mountain which heals peoples hearts and gives them the blessings of green and water