Yoshirô Umezawa

Underwater Love

35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.

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miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

The Virgin Wildsides

A documentary film-maker gives two virgins each a video camera so that they can film their lives in modern Japan.