JAPAN PANORAMA
BUT IT DID HAPPEN
The woman had three problems. One is about her own child who became a shut-in. Another is about another people's child who killed herself by jumping off the roof of her school a week ago. And the last one is that the woman was the class teacher of the child who passed away.
Yuichi Suita
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2021 | 0:15:00
OYASUMI 〜 LULLABY OF FLAME 〜
It's the eve of the end of a long-lasting world and the beginning of a new one.
The ancient gods of the earth gather to celebrate the new beginning. Sand painting animation and the sound of overtones invite you to a meditation-like world.
Even in turbulent times, it is okay. Life goes on. A new world has already begun.
We will deliver to you such a quiet light of hope.
Arisa Wakami
Animation, Music Video | Japan | 2021 | 0:06:46
THE OTHER SIDE
The middle-aged man who woke up in the riverbank of the Tama River is not wearing shoes ... A young man who seems to have come from the bubble era that suddenly appears. What is the translation of young man tears? The mysterious woman gently wraps everything. There is something here and there on the Tama River.
Toshitake Fukuoka
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2021 | 0:13:30
SHALL WE LOVE YOU?
After school, Makoto, Haruka, and Mei from the drama club gather in the corner of the high school gymnasium to translate and stage Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince." They think about the meaning of happiness, whilst reading through the script they have translated.
Haruna Tanaka
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2022 | 0:07:03
LOST SPRING
Yuya Fujisawa
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2021 | 0:17:47
MEMORY OF PLACES
Hiroshi Kondo
Fiction | Japan | 2022 | 0:05:55
ORBITAL CHRISTMAS
In the near future, during Christmas season, ALI, a Muslim engineer working on the space station meets TAKAKO, a Japanese girl who is looking for her father missing on the Earth, and tries to help her.
Mitsuyasu Sakai
Fiction, Sci-Fi | Japan | 2021 | 0:16:09