JAPANLAND is a journey into the soul of Japan. For an entire year, adventure filmmaker and author Karin Muller immersed herself in Japanese society. Speaking Japanese and living with geisha and samurai archers, mountain ascetics and pearl divers, Karin gained access to the most intimate - and surprising - aspects of Japanese culture. The result is a rare look behind the tatemai - Japan's public face - to see the honne, the true inner character of Japan. JAPANLAND, is an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at a side of Japan that few foreigners have ever seen.

Suburban Samurai
The journey begins in Fujisawa, a Tokyo suburb where the government wages "bicycle war" against local commuters, and grueling three-day Shinto festival quickly deteriorates into a yakuza brawl. Down the Old Tokkaido Road, Karin rides steam ...
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Spiritland
Spiritland follows Japan's most famous pilgrimage - a 1400 km trek around the country's fourth-largest island. The sacred journey begins at Koya monastery, where the monks chant endless sutras, scrub floors, and survive on a near-starvation diet of r...
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Mountain Gods and Businessmen
Mountain Gods and Businessmen opens on a mountain cult ceremony, where the participants walk on burning coals. Back in their sacred mountain hideaway the cultists undergo a secret training, with bizarre rituals and surprising revelations. Once the tr...
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The Final Test
Winter in northwestern Honshu Island is bitterly cold. The inhabitants of one village distract themselves by staging winter kabuki, a 7-hour play held outdoors, in the snow. In nearby Yamagata a taiko drumming team is preparing for its own dramatic p...
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