It still supplies water, generates power and boosts tourism. Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and lies to the east of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture ...

The Lake Biwa Canal is a historic waterway constructed first in 1890 and extended again in 1912. The canal links Lake Biwa, the largest lake in the country, to the city of Kyoto. It’s an amazing ...

Relatively commonplace as that description may read, writer-director Marko Raat’s “8 Views of Lake Biwa” is closer to a dreamlike folktale — set sometime during the 20 th century — than ...