Beacon had its world première at Tribeca 2024, 8 Jun 2024 Beacon opens with Emily (Julia Goldani Telles) on the deck of her boat Winddancer, a little floating island surrounded by nothing but water. Emily is doing a to-camera piece about her six-month solo mission to circumnavigate the globe the old-fashioned way, with a sextant…
Summary: Kon Ichikawa’s docudrama uses a real-life solo yacht journey from Japan to America to stage the shifting interplay between individual and society, East and West, in post-war Japan. Review: In 1962, nearly a decade after the Allied Occupation of Japan had come to an end, a young misfit named Horie Kenichi set sail in a…