Don Doko Don: The Yamakiya Taiko Club Story

Don Doko Don: The Yamakiya Taiko Club Story

Feature Documentary · Other · 16 pages
An award-winning Japanese youth taiko troop, led by a drumming phenom, must flee their mountain village near the failed Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and struggle to stay together in order to their community’s memory alive.
Written by Darryl Wharton-Rigby
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Darryl Wharton-Rigby
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Saitama-shi, Saitama-ken, JP
Hailing from Baltimore, Darryl has been immersed in Japanese culture for almost two decades. He has a BA in History and MFA in Film. He is the second African-American to make a feature in Japan with his film STAY, now on Amazon. His script YASUKE, about an African man who becomes a samurai, was given a shout out from the Blacklist, and Darryl was a ...
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