El Amo del Jardín / The Master of the Garden

Fernando Krapp 2025 Argentina, Japan Spanish, Japanese w/ English subtitles 86 minutes Distribution: Fernando Krapp (thunderkrapp@gmail.com)

The film traces over sixty years of Yasuo Inomata’s work, Argentina's most important landscape artist, creator of the Japanese gardens in Buenos Aires, and a key figure within the Japanese community in Argentina. Yasuo Inomata was born in a village in northern Japan and settled in Escobar, a town near Argentina's capital, in the 1960s. Starting in Escobar, the film retraces Inomata's career and reaches Japan, the city of Tokyo, and the town of Kamaishi, where Inomata was born. “Through a great protagonist like Inomata, the film observes everything Japanese that exists in Argentina and vice versa, revealing a case of secret cross-pollination discovered by cinema (BAFICI catalog).”