A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with a heartily independent filmmaker, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life.
Until the pandemic struck, the restless, honest, shy and creative Hirobumi Watanabe-san managed to direct eight movies, about one every year. Almost always, he appeared as an actor in his own films, made on truly minimal budgets together with his two brothers and other family members. They won the Japanese Splash Competition of Tokyo IFF with the mystery thriller “Poolside Man” in 2016 and conquered foreign pools with the international premiere in Karlovy Vary in 2017. Their next road rock’n’roll movie “Party 'Round the Globe” about die-hard The Beatles fans' drive to Tokyo for a Paul McCartney’s concert scored even more love outside Japan.
During the past pandemic year, Malaysian director-writer Lim Kah-Wai (his previous fascinating film “Come and Go” was screened at PÖFF and loved by the Estonian audience in 2020) proposed that the struggling Hirobumi Watanabe play an entirely fictionalised and vividly scripted director Hirobumi Watanabe, who goes on a cinephiliac and nostalgic expedition from Okinawa to Hokkaido to visit arthouse cinema theatres and find out which ones are still willing to show independently produced smaller films.
This delightful minimalist micro-budget dramedy ironically and truthfully depicts a sorrowful post-Covid situation in Japanese cinemas, the rapidly changing film culture and the newly (re)discovered habits of spectators as an unyielding optimist Hirobumi painstakingly and stubbornly strives to invent clever distribution methods.
The satirical, witty, uplifting and passionate journey with surprising cameos by former Tokyo IFF Artistic Director Yoshi Yatabe-san (who actually discovered Watanabe Brothers), Japanese superstar Shogen and many others takes us to real and unique cinematic places in Japan. We will learn intriguing facts about Japanese cinema theatres, their hapless struggles during the pandemic, the historical programming traditions, and the current moods of film venues and cinemagoers who are hoping to smile more often in front of the big screen in the future.
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大阪を拠点に、香港、中国、バルカン半島などで映画を製作し、どこにも属さずさまよう“シネマドリフター（映画流れ者）”を自称する映画監督リム・カーワイ。「ディス・マジック・モーメント」では彼が全国22館のミニシアターを訪ね、劇場を支える人たちの思いに耳を傾ける姿が映し出される。本編には、沖縄に現存する最古の映画館・首里劇場の解体前の最後の姿や、営業再開が決まった福岡・小倉昭和館の再建前の跡地など貴重な映像も収められている。

A Japan-Slovenia-Macedonia coproduction independent film about Turks in Balkan region.

北京の若い女性・ココは今年大阪で最高のクリスマスを過ごそうとするが、辿り付く先がなんとメトロポリタンと遠く離れた大阪の「新世界」だった。新世界で過ごす一日で、ココはイメージと全く違う「日本」と知らなかった「中国」と遭遇する。夜明け頃、彼女は一体なにを見つけるのか。或いはなにも見つけられないだろうか。2010年のクリスマスシーズン、大都会の北京と大阪の古い町「新世界」で撮影し、今の日本と中国の様子をリアータイムで伝える。

一段萦绕半生的婚姻关系，一段幻梦的婚外情在远离繁嚣的桂林发生，两个本应遥不可及的人在生命线上突然相遇，爱情的背后埋藏着令人错愕的真相。为配合影片意境，著名旅日画家李焱部份画作将会首次出现电影银幕。

香港流行雜誌編輯淑玲，被派往日本大阪採訪時尚尖端的大阪南（Minami）, 在這個大阪潮流購物區，邂逅以專業攝影師為夢想的日本青年賢兒（小橋賢兒 飾）。不一樣的生活背景，言語及年齡雖似乎沒礙於二人相愛，但淑玲要回港的事實會令他們的愛昇華還是被受考驗？
另一方面，首爾航空空姐雪兒，戀上居日韓人有婦之夫紳介，一段段跨國愛恨交織在這Minami夜空。