Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Tsubame Hiyakawa (Long Mizuma) is summoned to his father's home to satisfy his dying wish. Deep in debt, and terminally ill, his father needs him to deliver legal documents to Tsubame's estranged brother Ryushin (Takashi Yamanaka) - who Tsubame has not seen since their mother took Ryushin away in Taiwan when they were children. Japan ...
In the town of Seaside - nowhere near the ocean - Judy and Punch entertain their audience with a marionette show. While Judy (Mia Wasikowska) is by far the more talented puppeteer, it is Punch (Damon Herriman) that has captured the audience's affections. When Punch's drinking problem becomes too great to control, it sparks a ...
Sakura (Mayuko Fukuda) lives with her mother in suburban Japan. Having recently quit an unsatisfying job, she makes a temporary living filling in at a local nursery school. After making a connection with one of the students, she then meets the girl’s father Shindo - who bears an uncanny familiarity to her own largely absent ...
On a hot summer day, East Iruma High is losing the first game of the high school baseball championship. In the bleachers sit drama class enthusiasts Yasuda and Tamiya, both struggling to understand the game, former baseball team member Fujino, and Miyashita - the former top student of her year, now supplanted by the trumpet-playing ...
A silent and mild-mannered photographer drives into the woods to capture pictures of the local insect life - only for an Instagram model to fall out of a nearby tree. It reads like the opening to some kind of over-the-top comedy. Part of the genius of Woman of the Photographs, a new Japanese drama premiering at ...
Ying-juan (Tsai Jia-yin) is a 30 year-old woman, still living with her mother and working as a cook at her mother's child care centre. She is overweight: the children at her workplace tease her, neighbours resent and bully her, and her mother constantly harasses her to lose weight. Driven to her wit's end, unexpected support ...
Tatsuo (Ryu Morioka) has long since abandoned life in Tokyo and his dreams of becoming an independent filmmaker. He is married, works a stable office job, and lives in the Kanto countryside. When his college girlfriend Marina (Nanami Kawakami) unexpectedly reconnects, he fakes a business trip to share a hotel tryst with her - and ...
