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Pedal-power stations at a Hyakumori Denki forest-village screening
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Hyakumori Denki — Nishi-Awakura Village Festival

Japan, Nishi-Awakura, Okayama · Festival or event

Historical last verified 2026-09 One-off inaugural village festival, 30 July 2023; no subsequent edition documented.
Battery-buffered AC
not disclosedNot disclosed
  • Historical only
  • Split from an aggregated directory row

Websitehttps://mhdg.co.jp

Hyakumori Denki, a village energy festival in Nishi-Awakura, Okayama, ran its first edition on 30 July 2023 on a pedal-charged battery. The battery ran out about a minute before the film ended, and children and the power company's president pedalled live to finish it.

Key facts

  • Edition

    1st (第一回), 30 July 20231

    Documented

  • Village

    Nishi-Awakura, Okayama Prefecture1

    Documented

  • Battery outcome

    Ran out about 1 minute before the film's end1

    Documented

  • Fallback

    Children and the power company's president pedalled live to finish the film1

    Documented

“蓄電池に溜まった電池は34%…なんとラスト1分で電池切れのため上映がストップ！”

The battery that had been charged stood at 34 percent… and remarkably, with one minute left, it ran out and the screening stopped!

Mitsuwa Holdings, event report on the first Hyakumori Denki Film Festival, 30 July 20231

The local power company under Mitsuwa Holdings organizes the festival in Nishi-Awakura, a small forestry village in Okayama Prefecture 1. Villagers pedalled bicycle generators to charge a battery through the day, and the evening's film ran from that stored charge rather than from live pedalling 1. The organizer's event report, the sole documented source, names no bicycle count, generator wattage or battery capacity; no second edition is documented 1.

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
ArchitecturePedal generators charge a battery; the battery powers the projectorDocumented1
Battery charge before screening34 % (organizer-reported level)From the organizer's own event report; not an independently instrumented measurement.Operator-stated1
Runtime shortfallRan out with about 1 minute of the film remainingDocumented1
Number of bikes / generatorsnot disclosedNot disclosed1
Line diagram of the battery-charged screening with live pedalling shown as the final-minute fallback
Village battery charged by pedalling → projector; live pedalling as the last-minute fallback1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Villagers pedalling to power a community screening in Nishiawakura
Photo: Hyakumori Denki (recruit.mhdg.co.jp) — via recruit.mhdg.co.jp
Map of Okayama prefecture in Japan marking the village of Nishi-Awakura with a historical-event badge
Nishi-Awakura, Okayama1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Hyakumori Denki pedal-powered screening setup in Nishiawakura
Photo: Hyakumori Denki (recruit.mhdg.co.jp) — via recruit.mhdg.co.jp
Hyakumori Denki battery-assisted cinema event indoors
Photo: Hyakumori Denki (recruit.mhdg.co.jp) — via recruit.mhdg.co.jp

Sources

  1. [1]Mitsuwa Holdings — 百森でんき映画祭 report, 29/08/2023mhdg.co.jp

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