Great Beyond Episode 20

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01:01And I really want to find out why it happened.

01:05This is a small settlement with a very romantic name, the Moon Village, which is located right

01:12in the forest not far from Pai.

01:15Automobile roads, power lines and even water pipes do not reach here.

01:22They sleep on woven rugs, cook food over a fire in a public kitchen and drink water from

01:27a well.

01:28And here it's like a water, yeah?

01:29Water, yeah.

01:30From underground.

01:31Underground.

01:32So it's natural.

01:33Natural, yeah.

01:34Can we try?

01:35Yeah.

01:36It should be cold, right?

01:37Cold?

01:38Not very cold.

01:39I feel that it's good.

01:42It may even surprise you, but these residents of one of the most developed countries on our

01:57planet feel quite comfortable living in these Spartan conditions.

02:01Yeah.

02:02Okay.

02:03So what is this here?

02:04This is a meeting place.

02:08We're meeting here, eat food, play music.

02:12Yeah.

02:13Is it every day or you have a…

02:15Not every day.

02:16No.

02:17Only some special day.

02:19Do you play guitar?

02:21What kind of instrument do you use?

02:24I use Japanese drum.

02:26This one?

02:27Yeah.

02:30You know this?

02:31Taiko.

02:32Taiko?

02:33Taiko drum.

02:34Japanese traditional drum.

02:42Oh, it was so…

03:03It's Taiko drum.

03:05The inhabitants of this commune coexist very closely.

03:09They all live as one family and do not even ask for permission to visit each other when

03:13they're at home.

03:14Now it's not many people live in this village, but right now we have the friends of the June

03:19and we can meet with them.

03:22Konnichiwa.

03:23Konnichiwa.

03:24Konnichiwa.

03:25Konnichiwa.

03:26Hi.

03:28The house mistress's name is Aissa.

03:30When asked, she immediately arranged a tour for us around her two-story premises.

03:35There's only a bedroom and a dressing room on the second floor where some small kittens

03:41have settled in.

03:42Fire.

03:47In reality, it is something like a living room with a kitchen which are located on the

03:52first floor.

03:53We don't have electricity.

03:54Don't get confused with this refrigerator.

03:57It's just an iron wardrobe where we store all sorts of food.

04:01This is our kitchen.

04:02Nothing special.

04:03All dishes are for common use.

04:05We keep drinking water in this barrel.

04:07So that we don't go to a well every time.

04:10It's a good one.

04:12This is miso.

04:15Miso?

04:16Yes.

04:17It's miso.

04:18It smells.

04:22And is it mushrooms or what is this?

04:25No, it's a pasta from fermented soybeans.

04:28We cook a miso soup of it.

04:31And here I have kombucha.

04:33Dram head.

04:34Dram head用 kombucha.

04:35Kombucha.

04:36Yes.

04:38This is also kombucha.

04:40This is rice vinegar.

04:42And this is papaya vinegar.

04:44Papaya vinegar.

04:45And this is sake.

04:47It's sake?

04:48Dobrok.

04:50We cook here.

04:52By the way, it's a very convenient stove.

04:55I'm so used to it that probably I cannot use a modern one.

04:59By the way, it's not a problem to dishwash at all.

05:04We made our own small water supply.

05:06And this water, oh, it goes for the plants, right?

05:14So you kind of recycle the water used for the wash.

05:17Yeah.

05:18It became quite obvious at that moment.

05:20Aisa lives in this very basic condition by choice.

05:23Not because she cannot afford a more comfortable life.

05:27This is her conscious decision, her path to a calm and healthy life.

05:32It is her way of conserving nature, taking care of water and using the energy of the sun.

05:39I came here because I couldn't live in Japan anymore.

05:42Everything was perfect with me.

05:44A good husband, my beloved son.

05:47We lived in a big house and I had an interesting job.

05:51But one day everything changed.

05:53In 2011, when Japan had an earthquake, tsunami then and explosion in Fukushima.

05:59Are your family okay? Everyone is alive?

06:02Right. We didn't suffer from the tsunami.

06:05But I'm not sure about the radiation.

06:07We live 10 kilometers from Fukushima.

06:10I couldn't eat and drink. I thought that everything was poisoned.

06:14I'm very scared of radiation.

06:16But Japan, despite the tragedy, hasn't abandoned nuclear energy.

06:21I was afraid to stay there.

06:23But my family didn't want to live.

06:25How often you go to Japan?

06:28Once a year or even less often.

06:31And it's all about seeing my son.

06:33I divorced with my husband and this place has become my second home.

06:38I've been here for six years.

06:40Aissa makes bed covers to sell as well as sings with June in the band to make a living.

06:46She feels safe.

06:48For the time being, there are no nuclear power plants in Thailand.

06:52But there are plans for their construction.

06:55If this happens, it will be another real threat to the country's ecology.

07:00With us...

07:06...

07:16Of course.

07:19We live incredibly hard!

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