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- With its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker.
- This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
- Eri Manaka is young, charming and writes a romance novel out of boredom. This makes her the new star in the world of literature, idolized at parties and ensnared by the literary elite. When her own romances were less successful, she started the much more pessimistic follow-up novel - but the characters didn't quite agree with what Eri was telling them.
- Adapting from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice,Down the Rabbit Hole is entirely transformed into a Japanese Gothic Lolita wonderland. Rose Family, the unusual performers in the film, is a charismatic unit the Japanese Gothic Lolita world.
- Iwasaki Onikenbai is one of traditional Japanese performing arts, designated as the nation's significant intangible folklore cultural assets. It is practiced in a farming village called Iwasaki, in Kitakami city, Iwate prefecture. Iwasaki Onikenbai, with its 1300 year history, is what's called "Nenbutsu Kenbai", which is a sword dance (kenbai), danced as the performers chant the Buddhism prayer (nenbutsu). It is commonly known as "Onikenbai" for the performers heroically dance wearing a monstrous masks of ogre. The most of the performers are farmers, simultaneously working as carpenters or artisans. They regularly practice, teach children between works and perform almost every weekend. In Iwasaki region, Children start to learn Onikenbai at nursery school. Wives of the performers also dance Onikenbai as a team called "Onago (ladies) Kenbai". It seems as though the whole life in this region is led around Onikenbai. The director lived in this region for one year and filmed the life of the local people. How this traditional performing art is deep-rooted in their everyday life and how the community exists throw many questions to those who live in the modern society without communities.
- The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.