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Guided by images she came across in a theater, she heads for a town sunk at the bottom of a dammed lake.

Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.

A salary man debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

What happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?

Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men.

A common horoscope brings a timid middle-aged salaryman and high school delinquent to the center of a political scandal, in which a corrupt incumbent mayor seeks to crush the candidacy of his reformer opponent. This anti-establishment tale blends a punk ethos with absurdist comedy as the unlikely pair finds their existence given new meaning when they work to return a kidnapped baby. Along the way they must fight not only the assault of the mayor's neoliberal redevelopment of the town, but his bribed police force and yakuza. Under director Sho Tsukikawa's taut direction, "I Alone"'s mad roller coaster ride plot and outraged self-determination all ring emotionally true, making this one of the year's biggest discoveries.

"Live House" is a Japanese phrase for a truly Japanese phenomenon-cramped, smoky, nondescript concrete boxes hidden away in basements, where music makers and music lovers congregate, away from usual society norms. With over 1,000 venues throughout the country, live houses are the birthplace of a Japanese subculture that is set to take its place on the global stage. Although bands on the live house circuit operate below the radar of celebrity-obsessed mainstream culture, through time-test D.I.Y. methods and the Internet, they build fan bases both at home and abroad, and cross borders in a way that glossy pop stars could never dream of. Coming from the opposite direction, Mike Watt, one of the founding fathers of punk, takes breaks from worldwide stadium tours to soak in the Japanese live house atmosphere.