Yasuhiro Omori Filmography

"A Sacred Mountain Osorezan
83 min./Color/16mm


Twice a year, worshippers make a pilgrimage to the Osorezan, a sacred mountain in Northern Japan where they remember ancestral spirits as embodied in the shamanic medium. This landscape is one of the most unique in Japan and seen as the entry point to another world.

Produced by: National Museum of Ethnology
Planned, Filmed, and
Produced by:		 Yasuhiro Omori, Research Department on National Museum of Ethnology
Filmed on: October 1990-February 1993
Filmed at: Osorezan, Mutsu City, Aomori Prefecture
With the Cooporation of: Osorezan, Entsu-ji, Itakos
In Cooperation with: NHK Service Center
Production Date: March 1984

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