Konichiwa Coria del Rio English

🇯🇵🇪🇸 Konichiwa, Coria del Río is a RTVE documentary that traces the unexpected and emotional connection between a small town in Andalusia and Japan. Through interviews, oral history, archive footage and a critical gaze, this audiovisual journey travels across centuries of shared legacy—from the 17th-century visit of the Japanese envoy Hasekura Tsunenaga to the present-day echoes of that encounter, still alive in the names, faces and celebrations of Coria del Río. 🎥 This is not your typical historical documentary. It’s a living exploration of identity, cultural fusion, memory, and what it means to live in the symbolic borderlands between two worlds. 🔍 What remains of Japan in Coria del Río today? What does it mean to belong to two places at once? This collective work searches for answers through art, language and emotion. 📍 Filmed in Coria del Río, Andalusia 🔔 Subscribe to explore more stories of memory, cultural hybridity, and invisible roots.