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Sosuke is a young manga artist who lives in central Tokyo. He has reached a dead end in his current work about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He even attempts to look for traces of Japanese wolves in the mountains. One winter’s day at the construction site where he works part-time, Sosuke finds an animal skull and takes it home. Could it be a Japanese wolf’s skull? He goes back to the construction site at night to investigate further but meets Midori who is accidentally injured when looking for her dog. Spurred on by this meeting with Midori and her family, Sosuke gradually unearths the memories of the past war buried underground in Tokyo.

This is the second feature film for director Masakazu Kaneko following 2016’s The Albino’s Trees. He co-wrote the screenplay with Genki Yoshimura with a cast featuring Shô Kasamatsu (Mask...

Third Window Films is pleased to announce the World Premiere release of the new master of Macoto Tezuka’s 1985 debut film “The Legend of the Stardust Brothers”

In 1985, Macoto Tezka (son of the great manga artist Osamu Tezuka) met musician and TV personality Haruo Chicada who had made a soundtrack to a movie which didn’t actually exist: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers.

At the time Macoto was just 22 years old, a film-student with many short experimental films under his belt, but yet to make a feature-debut and of course had the pressure of the Tezuka name. With Chicada as producer, Tezka then adapted this “fake sountrack” into the real musical story of “The Stardust Brothers”.

With inspiration from “Phantom of the Paradise” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, Tezuka assembled a cast of some of Japan’s most famous musicians of the time, including such greats as Kiyohiko Ozaki,...