The Hidden Festival

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity Takamine Gitan Otsuru is a bigcity workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal His predecessor almost managed to convince the islands 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel that is before he died under dubious circumstances Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business instead they tell him to become an islander So the cityslicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako Mitsuko Baisho the widowed daughter of the islands chief She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyrestyle chained to a stake One moonlit night their mutual attraction boils over resulting in a naked passionate roll on the beach