自然からの継承, そして葛藤
After World War II, Japan’s cities needed to be reimagined. Dreamers like Kisho Kurokawa stepped into the flux. His “Metabolist” architecture movement built outlandish, utopian structures intended to demonstrate the new “life age,” evolving organically to keep pace with society. By the twenty-first century, however, most had vanished or fallen into disrepair.
Shot in Japan just before the pandemic, After Nature communes with this futurism now past, presenting a story of time, decay, and strange faith in buildings. The short documentary revisits two then-surviving Metabolist projects: Capsule House K (1973) in the mountains near Nagano, and Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) in Tokyo, which was ordered dismantled and demolished in spring of 2022.
The film is narrated by Kisho’s son Mikio Kurokawa, Nakagin preservationist Tatsuyuki Maeda, and Metabolist architect Nobuo Abe, who oversaw the Nakagin project.