abc.net.au/news/tasmania-story-house-for-japanese-film-still-stands/102881810An hour out of Hobart, at the far end of a paddock, is a house built for a Japanese feature film.
The film follows the travels of a young Japanese boy to Australia as he searches for his estranged father. He eventually tracks him to rural Tasmania, where his father has become obsessed with finding a thylacine.Three decades on, location property owner Stuart Archer says the house will soon be demolished after extensive vandalism and years of disrepair.
Behind the scenes, it was a cross-cultural feat of overcoming language barriers to work and socialise as one team.Along a stretch of highway in southern Tasmania it would be easy to miss a gateway leading to the Tasmania Story house. At a cursory glance and with imagination, the now-dilapidated house looks like a once-functional residence: wooden floorboards, a kitchen, lounge room and fireplace fill the interior.On the roof, there are sections of brick-patterned plastic; and in the kitchen, the sink has no plumbing.Farmer Stuart Archer plans to dismantle the Tasmania Story house soon.