(segment "Musume Gokoro")
Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.
Tamako
The second feature from female director Shindo Kaze (Love/Juice), Princess in an Iron Helmet (a.k.a. Korogare! Tamako) is a bright and colorful youth film about a quirky young woman's reluctant coming-of-age journey. Tamako (Yamada Maiko) is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father (Naoto Takenaka) left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.
Maya Ito
며칠 뒤 결혼식을 올릴 예비 신랑인 칸자키는 사체가 훼손된 채 발견되는 엽기적인 연쇄살인의 담당형사이다. 그러나 결혼식 당일 약혼자인 미나가 연쇄살인의 희생자로 발견되자 그는 범인에 대한 복수를 다짐한다. 한편 자신이 죽었다는 사실을 깨닫지 못한 미나는 저승의 문 앞에서 다시 현세로 돌아온다. 부검실에 누워 있는 자신의 시신 앞에서 분노를 참지 못하는 칸자키를 발견한 미나는 그를 말리려 한다. 그러나 그 때, 그녀의 눈에 자신을 죽였다고 생각되는 사람의 사진이 비치는데...