It’s a Summer Film!

Director: MATSUMOTO Sôshi
2021, 97 minutes, OmeU, Blu-ray

"Let's make a movie together!" A girl who loves samurai movies and a mysterious teenager make a movie that transcends time and space.
High school student Hadashi is passionate about old samurai movies. When her own plan for a samurai film falls through at the film club, she quickly rounds up friends and starts making the film on her own. She persuades a reluctant young man to play the lead role and filming begins, but one problem after another arises. Will they manage to finish the movie? And anyway, could it be that the young man is from the future? This original youth film masterpiece has elements of science fiction and refreshingly shows young people getting serious about filmmaking.

Film series
It's better together!
New Japanese films

Nowadays, there are many forms of loneliness and being alone.

Some people deliberately withdraw from life in the community, others are suddenly alone due to external circumstances such as separation or bereavement and have to reorient themselves.

The series of eight films, which were made between 2019 and 2022, approaches the topic from different perspectives that are not only thought-provoking but also entertaining. The series kicks off with a quirky science fiction comedy in which a young woman struggles with her hated father, whose body has just died for a short time, followed by a sensitive family drama about a single widower. In a cooking film, the seasons determine the emotional life of a single senior citizen and a visually stunning anime tells the adventure-fantasy story of a girl who is neglected by her mother. In another anime, an art student encounters heroes and demons in her deceased grandmother's house and in a refreshing feature film, a couple of friends who have problems at school realize a shared dream. The gloomy vision of an ageing society strikes a serious note. The series is rounded off with a literary adaptation about a lonely older woman who experiences a special kind of cheering up.