Takasaki Graffiti

With the spread of the internet, social media has become a crucial part of people's daily lives. However, its helpful, informative qualities are not all that comes with it. This omnibus drama series depicts social media's destructive ability to plant darkness and fear in the people trapped in its mysterious charm.

Three shorts and three supplements tackle the central theme of 'compliance'. A wanna-be actress findsherself trapped between her traditional loyalty to her parents and her strong-willed director; a police officer and his robot sidekick resort to unorthodox methods to fight crime; a structuring of a PSA to promote social sensitivity is taken to absurd extremes.

Yuta (Abera Hidenobu), a monk with a passion for photography, captures in his viewfinder "that girl" (Ogura Yuna) who passes by his temple each day. One day as he is focused on taking photos, he has a reunion with childhood friend Yuka (Kano Yura). In the brief time they reminisce, she suddenly pressures him for a kiss. Moreover, he witnesses "that girl" meet a guy she got to know through a dating app.

Yuta, who was fatally wounded for the sake of his favorite child, is bedridden for the rest of his life. At the same time, his childhood friend Yuka has been taking "rustics" she has collected through a matching app to the other world one after another. And then, the evil hand crept up on her...

Teru is a cocky young boxer living together with Ben, an autistic young man who's been like a little brother to him ever since his mother abandoned him. When Teru loses a match against Kitazawa, a serious opponent from Osaka, he has to quit boxing because of a vision injury. Ben, who idolizes Teru and is obsessed with how "Teru can't lose", attempts to walk to Osaka to have a rematch with Kitazawa in place of him. Teru and Aoyama, a boxer who once lost to Teru, end up going on a road trip to Osaka to resolve Ben's obsession. Stopping at various gyms on the way, they realize that Ben's obsessive imitating of Teru might make him a real boxer.

Isora Iwakiri directed and filmed a MV hydrangea (紫陽花), song by kyanai.

The short film follows an 18-year-old girl as she visits her grandmother in the countryside after failing an entrance exam.