Here is the authentic sauna that you can't find in Japan. A film about the relationship between Finnish people and sauna is now in theaters!

From private saunas in homes, offices, and summer huts to public saunas by lakes and in towns, there are approximately 3 million saunas for a population of 5.5 million people in Northern Europe, the home of saunas.

Here in Japan, the sauna boom has reached its zenith, with books and manga as well as serialized dramas being aired on TV. Unlike Japanese saunas, which are more entertaining, active, and festive, Finns seem to have a more everyday way of interacting with saunas. This is the reason why this film, "Where there is a saunaIt is depicted in the book.

In this work, various people with scars on their shins appear. Many of the 14 episodes told in the sauna, where everyone has equal access to the sauna, are heavy and painful. They talk about their estranged daughters, their criminal past, their "best friends," their wives and children who have passed away before them, and so on. I will confide in them.

In Finland, where saunas are already commonplace, we can talk about life only in a sauna. The Japanese title "Where there is a sauna" also makes sense.

Of course, saunas will be wishing for saunas to be able to enjoy Finnish sauna culture in the making.

Along with the beautiful nature of Finland's spring, summer, fall, and winter seasons, a variety of unique saunas will be featured, including DIY camper and phone booth saunas, a sauna hut where you can jump straight into a lake, historic public saunas in the capital Helsinki and Tampere, which was declared the World Sauna Capital in 2018, and tent saunas with hanging lamps. The saunas are unique and varied.

If you are interested not only in saunas but also in Finnish society and its people, this is a must-see. You will see a sauna that is not a boom, but a form of sauna that is hard to find in Japan.