Jo Kondo 1947 is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it is highly abstract Without clear directionality and at the same time not without form For a Japanese audience it sounds Western and in the West it is regarded Japanese A music in between categories Like Kondos music the film is shifting between places and directions a concert in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam an elaborate sushi bar in Tokyo a CDproduction in a Cologne radio station the Zuisenji temple in Kondos neighborhood in Kamakura Kondo wants his music to appear normal without spectacular surface or narrative elements A concept of normality you may also find in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu who like Kondo spent most of his life in Kamakura
