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The Youngest Daughter

It's a weekday morning, just like any other. Natsumi, a fourth grader, is on her way to school when she suddenly decides to run away from home. She leaves her school bag in a luggage locker, and heads for her grandmother's house, who lives far away. Her grandmother is surprised by her sudden visit, but she understands Natsumi's feelings and welcomes her warmly. Natsumi is exhausted from the stress of her parents' bad relationship. Natsumi's heart begins to relax as she spends the time with her grandmother and her neighbors, who seem to be enjoying themselves without a care in the world. The next day, her parents come to take her back.

The Youngest Daughter

NR 2022
One Hundred Years and Hope

In a country ruled by the Liberal Democratic Party, running on austerity and neoliberal ambitions, for most of its postwar years, gender and economic inequalities have become increasingly acute in Japan. Takashi Nishihara, a filmmaker who has been following the youth protests in Japan notices that there is one party that seems to be raising issues of gender and economic in the political sphere, the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), a party about to enter its hundredth year and consistently burdened by its historical connotations. Though an outsider of the party, Nishihara gained unprecedented access to the JCP and driven by his interest in the younger party members who find hope in the JCP, the resulting documentary goes beyond party politics and observes the current grassroots leftist movements in Japan. It also becomes witness to the larger and deep-seated patriarchal system that continues to quell momentums of hope.

One Hundred Years and Hope

NR 2022
Spectre

The ghost of her young mother appears to a gray-haired cleaning lady and laments her daughter’s life of loneliness, having borne no children. However, the old woman refuses her mother. This work is based on the concept of re-creation in digital conversion, capturing the video stage play “ A Woman who cleans up” (performed at Drama-Kan Theatre in 2019) and capturing the noise / errors that occur during the conversion as acting or choreographs. Fukushiki Mugen-Noh by AI. The end of human beings.

Spectre

NR 2022
Minato Aqua 2nd Solo Live “Aqua Iro in Wonder☆Land♪”

MINATO AQUA One-Man Live 2022 "Aqua Iro in Wonder☆Land♪" (湊あくあワンマンライブ 2022「あくあ色 in わんだ~☆らんど♪」) was a live concert event that took place at Toyosu PIT on January 28, 2022, serving as Minato Aqua's second solo live concert. Oozora Subaru, Nekomata Okayu, Houshou Marine, Momosuzu Nene, Gawr Gura and Ninomae Inanis appeared as guests. The Blu-ray of the concert was released on September 28, 2022.

Minato Aqua 2nd Solo Live “Aqua Iro in Wonder☆Land♪”

NR 2022
Whereabouts of Sound

As they play carefree music, their musicianship is met with surprise, wonder, and sometimes even laughter. Captivating all who watch, Otoasobi Project’s rich variety of expression reshapes the concept of improvised music. Formed in 2005 in Kobe, Japan, Otoasobi Project has some 50 members, including people with intellectual disabilities, musicians, and music therapists, who pursue music and well-being through improvised performances. After many years of numerous workshops, concerts, and other activities, they even held their first tour in the UK in September 2013. The movie “Whereabouts of Sound” depicts the appeal of the improvised music Otoasobi creates, and the beauty of its natural, honest expression.

Whereabouts of Sound

NR 2022
Boy Meets Tank

A 14-year-old boy, Tasaki, is fed up with his depressing life in a rural town. He wastes time with his friend, Eda, who’s all talk and no deed, and also suffers from bullying by a classmate, Takiguchi. He feels happier only when having a chat with a pretty girl, Sakura. One day, he hears about an old tank left decayed deep in the lake. Driven by the idea that the tank can break through his days, Tasaki sets off on the quest. It’s an internal journey where he faces with himself in puberty.

Boy Meets Tank

NR 2022
Soon to Be a Zombie

Remi is an underground idol hoping to be famous but, with her ordinary face, she hardly gains popularity. Being at risk of getting fired, she gets infected with Zombie Virus, a fatal disease turning into a zombie. She expresses her determination to live as an idol to the death and her decision turns her into an overnight sensation. But in fact, her infection was a setup orchestrated by her producer. Still, she stands on stage as an idol and turns into a zombie in front of a packed audience.

Soon to Be a Zombie

6.0 2022
When I Opened the Door to That Garden

Yoko, a 5-year-old girl, on a walk with her father finds an abandoned Western-style building with a beautiful garden, into which an elderly woman is moving. Yoko is attracted to the noisy grandmother, although she is afraid. Eventually Yoko falls ill with diphtheria and spends her time in the hospital. One night she is guided by a girl, who looks into the mysterious world of her grandmother's memory. The memories of 5-year-old Yoko and her 70-year-old grandmother overlap. Yoko experiences an adventure in her grandmother's time that was neither her dream nor reality.

When I Opened the Door to That Garden

NR 2022
Happy Ending

Kirihara's life was full of lies and loneliness. He was a picture book writer with a brilliant past that his first book hit a bestseller, but one day allegations of plagiarism of his first book emerged. The truth of the case was about to be revealed by a reporter who relentlessly chased after him. Around that time, he reunited with his mother, who had abandoned himself at an early age, but she was hospitalized unconscious. Despaired by his life, Kirihara jumps off the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide without improving his divorced relationship with his wife and son. A girl appears there to help him. The moment he thought "Who?!", Kirihara became the girl! Kirihara, who became the girl, witnesses him falling. Immediately after that, something even more mysterious happens. The time was back five days ago. This is how the mysterious five days of "Two Kirihara", a girl and a picture book writer, begins...

Happy Ending

NR 2022
Kitakaze Outsider

This humanistic drama depicts the bond between a brother and sister living in the zainichi Korean town of Ikuno, Osaka. Based on his own life, actor Choi Cheol-ho, the leader of the theatrical troupe Stray Dog Bullet, directs, writes, and stars in the film, which depicts a family that faces difficulties without forgetting to laugh and encourage each other in the midst of severe circumstances such as racial prejudice and poverty. In a zainichi Korean town in Ikuno, a funeral is being held for Omoni, who was like a mother to everyone. However, her eldest son Yong-gi, who disappeared 15 years ago, is not there. The three siblings, except Yeong-gi, are at their wit's end, burdened with debts from the store that Omoni used to run. Yeong-gi eventually returns, but the siblings are bewildered by his changed appearance. (machine translated from eiga.com)

Kitakaze Outsider

NR 2022
Palette

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, people initially thought the virus would be easy to eradicate, but it mutated in a way that increased infection and became resistant to all vaccines and medicines. Now this terrible, poisonous virus has invaded every corner of downtown Tokyo and is spreading. The Japanese government is resorting to drastic measures to monitor its citizens. People are not allowed to leave their homes, and face fines or imprisonment. The authorities force the population to wear gas masks at home as well. Against this dystopian backdrop, a small group of people have come together to create a return to an ideal world. This film is a touching but fleeting reminder of the small resistance they are putting up.

Palette

NR 2022