Kei Shichiri

Gōzō Yoshimasu is one of Japan’s leading poets, still prolific into his ninth decade. This film documents his 2019 performance of Se (‘back’), a live poetry reading set against accompaniment from avant-garde rock group Kukan Gendai. Blindfolded and wearing a facemask, Yoshimasu plays audio recordings, growls and rasps his way through a rendition of a poem, and channels every ounce of his energy into drawing, using a pane of glass as his canvas. Kukan Gendai sculpt shapes of sound in response: an entire universe thrown into sharp relief by an uncompromising contest between voice and music.

Deconstruction of the Daughter of Salome

For the film’s 10th anniversary, experimental filmmaker Kei Shichiri (DUBHOUSE, JAPAN CUTS 2015) presents an all-new sound and image remastering of his tour de force film (formerly translated as Before the Day Breaks). Based on a manga by Naoki Yamamoto, the film follows Aochi, who sleeps and sleeps but never feels like she has slept enough. Shichiri, who explores the limits of sound and image in his diverse body of work, presents a highly evocative dramatic film in which humans barely appear on screen. The story is told through voiceover, sound and visions of dreams and landscapes. Over the years, the film has gained fans, including contemporary auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who compared the film to those by Jean-Luc Godard. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

TheForbidden pure love story, based on the original work of Junichi Watanabe. Chitani Moriya is an ordinary 25-year-old office worker who is driven by a marriage desire.

TheForbidden pure love story, based on the original work of Junichi Watanabe. Chitani Moriya is an ordinary 25-year-old office worker who is driven by a marriage desire.

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed with a large hemangioma, or benign vascular tumor, on her hip (one that we actually never see). One day after she encounters a mysterious man wearing a hood and playing a clarinet she discover a small shack built out of cardboard. She crawls into it and suddenly we are transported to this young woman's interior world, a place where she meets her own doppelgänger in the form of a large doll who bears the same birthmark on her hip.

17세 소녀는 자신의 젊음이 영원하지 않은 것을 이미 알고 있었다. 소녀는 등에 천사의 날개를 문신으로 새겨 넣었다. 그리고 자기보다 훨씬 연상의 세 남자들과 1년간의 애인 계약을 맺었다. 남자들은 소녀를 하나코라고 부르고 소녀는 남자들을 그저 A, B, C 라고 부르기로 했다. 남자들의 저택에는 소녀를 위한 공간이 없었다. 남자들이 원하면 소녀는 자신의 몸을 내어주어야 했다. A는 언제나 상냥하게 하나코를 안는다. B는 알 수 없는 사람이다. 그저 하나코를 바라보기만 한다. C는 거칠게 최대한 거칠게 그녀를 정복한다. 하나코라고 불리는 소녀는 남자들의 장난감이 되어 밤을 보내지만 낮에는 학교에 다니는 평범한 고등학생이다. 무서운 비밀을 간직하고 있는 소녀에게 친구가 되려는 또 다른 소녀가 접근한다. 두 소녀가 영화를 같이 보기로 한 날 하나코는 극장 화장실에서 낯선 남자에게 강간 당한다. 그 광경을 친구의 남동생이 발견하고 연민의 정을 느낀다. 하나코도 친구의 남동생에게 세 중년 남자에게서 느끼지 못한 또 다른 남자의 향기를 경험하는데...

A young man writes a novel about his forbidden love with his sister, who works overtime in the office on a holiday. Based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto, and covering the manga's inspiration source, Juro Kara's "Anjuko's Shoes" and Ogai Mori's "Sansho Dayu".

A young man writes a novel about his forbidden love with his sister, who works overtime in the office on a holiday. Based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto, and covering the manga's inspiration source, Juro Kara's "Anjuko's Shoes" and Ogai Mori's "Sansho Dayu".

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...