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Every year, VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organisation) produces five films as part of an effort to foster Japanese film-making. Film-making skills are imparted and polished through workshops for talented young film-makers. Its goal is to discover and foster the next generation of feature-length film directors. The festival will showcase short films from 2007 and 2008. | |||||
| Directions - NDJC 2007 (PG) | |||||
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BUS TO HEAVEN 30 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by GUNJIGAKE Masayuki It's Yuzo's birthday and Torakichi has prepared a "special present". This is a bus ticket from Shibuya via Roppongi bound for Shinbashi. A bus ride to Heaven. |  (C)2008 VIPO | SCREENING | |||
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 (C)2008 VIPO | GOOD
BYE, GEORGE ADAMSKI 27 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by KODAMA Kazuto Sadayuki believes that aliens from a UFO abducted them during that time when Haruo, Sadayuki, and Sadayuki's mother were in a forest. Sadayuki insists that Haruo goes with him to see a once world-renowned ufologist Nagasawa to remove the chip that was implanted in their heads by aliens. And to possibly bring back his mother. Sadayuki says Nagasawa is the only one who knows how to contact the aliens. George Adamski - Well-known philosopher of ufology | SIGN
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SEISMIC
GIRL 30 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by TATENAI Kenta Miyama is a town in which earthquake rarely occurs. Satoshi, a researcher of earthquakes, is unhappy with the situation and decides to head to the U.S with Yuri, his ex-girlfriend, in search earthquakes. Mitsuko, Satoshi's girlfriend, is not exactly thrilled and finds a way to create earthquakes to keep him in town. |  (C)2008 VIPO | ||||
 (C)2008 VIPO | BABIN 30 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by HIRABAYASHI Isamu Deep in the forest, a strange man with the lower part of his body buried in the ground delivers an incomprehensible soliloquy. At first annoyed by a small boy who tries to play with him by throwing a stone, he experiences a change of heart when the child barely saves him from a forest fire. But soon after the man and the boy become friends, a man with a chainsaw comes near... A sad and absurd drama based on a unique view of the world. | ||||
RESTAURANT
UFO 30 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by YAMAGUCHI Satoshi In a small town famous for many UFO sightings, Yu is hoping to go to university in a big city, but she is worried about leaving her father behind to run a diner called "Restaurant UFO" alone, Yu tries to find her replacement and one day meets an applicant, but the person turns out to be Yu's mother who was taken away by UFO several years ago... |  (C)2008 VIPO | ||||
| Directions - NDJC 2008 (PG) | |||||
 (C)2009 VIPO | A
LYING WOMAN'S DAYBREAK 29 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by KUMAGAI Madoka Yuriko's happy life as a piano teacher is suddenly changed when her love affair is exposed. To restart her life, she starts working at a small bento (lunchbox) store but rumours continue to haunt her... | SCREENING | |||
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BLOOM 29 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by TANAKA Tomofumi Urara, 27 years old, single, lives with her mother and sister in Tokyo. Her family does not pay attention to her and also her colleagues talk behind her back. One day an accident happens to her that brings about a change to her clumsy and timid self. |  (C)2009 VIPO | SIGN
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 (C)2009 VIPO | THE
SPARKLING AMBER 30 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by NAKAKO Ryota Ryoko, whose mother passed away two years ago, lives with her father. Her father's new girlfriend Michiko has come to their home to help. Ryoko always closes the altar when Michiko comes. Amber, the colour that gives warmth will connect this family that's not quite a family. | ||||
KUDAN 29 min, Colour, DV, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by YOSHII Kazuyuki Michiyo has just moved out into the countryside with her mother. On the way to her new school, she finds a 'Kudan' well. "Kudan" is a demon that predicts your death will come in 3 days. One day, she meets an old man who calls himself "Kudan." He predicts that Michiyo will fall into the well. Michiyo falls into the well as predicted, but.. |  (C)2009 VIPO | ||||
 (C)2009 VIPO | A
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