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Document 72 Hours: Season 2019

2019x11 Jumokuso: Resting Beneath a Cherry Tree

  • 2019-07-22T12:30:00Z on NHK
  • 30m
  • Japan
  • Japanese
  • Documentary
At a large cemetery in a Tokyo suburb, cherry trees grow in between rows of traditional gravestones. The trees themselves are also graves - a form of tree burial called "jumokuso" gaining popularity across Japan as more people express their wish to return to nature after they die. For 3 days during cherry blossom season, we meet people flocking to the cemetery to pay their respects, including a man on his weekly visit to the grave of his late wife, who stood by him through difficult times; 3 brothers who always visit their father's grave together around this time of the year; and a woman who talks to her late husband as she sips on a beer, as they used to enjoy doing together.
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