In the 1990s, about 2,000 Turkish Kurdish refugees settled in a suburb of Tokyo. This documentary focuses on three young Kurds in Japan. Since the ’90s, Turkish/Kurdish refugees have arrived in Japan and settled in a  suburb of Tokyo.  today, that community is 2000 heads strong and after all these years, they still are illegal immigrants. Here live Ozan (18), Ramazan (19)and Mehmet(38). 

This film documents the lives of Honoka Nishimura, who was close to brain death immediately after birth due to problems during childbirth but continues to live on a ventilator, and her parents, Hidekatsu and Risa Nishimura.

Through the anguish and love of her parents, who continue to nurture Honoka even though her life is often seen with a negative consciousness as if her parents force her to live, the film deepens our understanding of what human connection can bring and the dignity of life.

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness. 

The villagers had heard no sounds other than the sound of mountains in Oshika for a long time, however, since November 2016, they have started hearing the roaring sound of Linear construction, which is called Future Dream Shinkansen running between Tokyo and Nagoya.

Daisuke Muramoto (39) has been in the entertainment industry for 20 years. He has appearing on TV almost every day. However, because he repeatedly criticized politicians and made remarks about nuclear power plants and minority groups that are ostracized from society - topics that are regarded as taboos in the Japanese entertainment industry - in 7 years, Daisuke’s appearance on TV has plummeted to zero.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled “Double Layered Town.”