160 Years

Maya Yoshida is a Japanese soccer player and LA Galaxy defender whose career has been shaped across leagues, cultures, and systems.

His lens favors discipline over spectacle. Attention over noise. Structure, balance, and the choices that define performance.

In Hiji Town, Japan, he steps inside the distillery to encounter its spaces, its people, and the craft carried forward today. A camera moves with him, documenting the rhythm of the distillery and the people who shape it.

Seen through his eyes, the film reflects on heritage, what is built over time, and the discipline of detail, revealing the quiet strength that defines Nikaido Shochu, where restraint and passion exist side by side.