Contemporary, low-cost, independent production from the Land of the Rising Sun actively struggles with a difficulty that has been plaguing it long-term – a certain isolation, a lack of communication with analogous tendencies in film culture happening in the rest of the world. Hirobumi Watanabe, one of Japan’s most exciting young filmmakers, is succeeding through style and in his manner of developing a story. His third film presents pool man Yusuke Mizuhara, a loner of few words whose monotonous life plays out in a suburb north of Tokyo between home and a nearly-deserted pool. His stoic expression knows no variance, not even under the deluge of words streaming from his somewhat overbearing coworker Koji. What’s behind the impenetrable façade worn by a young man confronted daily by reports of the tragedies besetting different parts of the world? A formally ambitious, geometrically precise film about certain unexplained thought processes associated with the Japanese mentality.

The band "Techno Brothers" played by Watanabe, brother Watanabe Yuji and pal Kurosaki Takanori, go to find fame and fortune in Tôkyô. It’s more accurate, though, to call it their manager’s plan. Named Himuro, she channels the look and attitude of famed Vogue editor Anna Wintour, from her bobbed hair and ever-present sunglasses to her commanding air and iron will.

A normal day for little Riko at home and at school. A vivid snapshot pervaded by the calm flow of reality that creates an authentic sense of wonder.

北関東郊外の小さな町。電子機器を扱う小さな町工場で働く本田光は、愛犬のリンゴと穏やかな生活を送っている。ある日、本田は同僚のビートルズマニア・平山隆文とともに、東京ドームで開催されるポール・マッカートニーの来日コンサートへ行くことになるのだが…。第29回東京国際映画祭日本映画スプラッシュ部門において『プールサイドマン』が作品賞を受賞。その後もカルロヴィ・ヴァリ国際映画祭など世界各地の映画祭で絶賛され、今や世界が最も注目する日本映画の作り手にまで成長した渡辺紘文・雄司兄弟最新作。ふたりのビートルズマニアの静かな生活と奇妙な旅路を通し、生きることのおかしさ、悲しさ、騒がしさを描いた珠玉のロードムービー。 Hikaru Honda works at a small electronics factory in a suburb north of Kanto region and leads a quiet life with his dog Ringo. One day, he decides to go to a Paul McCartney concert at Tokyo Dome with his fellow Beatlemaniac, Takafumi Hirayama. After Poolsideman, which won the Japanese Cinema Splash Award at the 2016 TIFF and was critically acclaimed at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and other festivals, the Watanabe brothers have become one of the world's most-watched Japanese filmmakers. This latest film is a gem of a road movie. Infused with the Watanabe's unique sense of humor and melancholy.

Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from Tokyo. He lives together with his grandmother and laughs at his friend who goes to real work - shoveling cow manure. On one day, a young woman arrives to the area and claims to be Takashi's half-sister from this' father's escapade. And she is the kind you can't get easily rid off...