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In a whole other style then his usual, manga adaptation style, Hitoshi One directs a film that was shot in a few days with a very small budget, based on the homonymous novel and play by Daisuke Miura. The story revolves around a number of individuals of the on-kyun (Dqn) tribe, youths in their 20s, with dead-end part-time jobs and makeshift love lives, who live in tiny apartments and seem to have no purpose in life.

The story unfolds at a house part where the hosts are Kouji and Tomoko, and the ones invited are Yuuta, Kouji’s best friend; Naoki, Yuuta’s brother and his girlfriend, Satomi; Takashi, a kind of annoying young man who lives with Yuuta; Kaori, Tomoko’s friend whom Takashi is crazy about; Yuuko, another of Tomoko’s friends who is actually set up with another of the boys’ friends, Osamu, although...

Teenage angst, bullying and loneliness are the central puzzle pieces of Yuka Eda’s directorial debut “Girls’ Encounter” whose story is set in the Japanese province where escaping reality is a notch harder than disappearing in the anonymity of an urban landscape. With a deep take on the most confusing period of human life – hormonal, brutal and vulnerable, the Japanese director comes close to reality, uncompromisingly straightforward in her storytelling approach.

The story builds around Miyuri (Moeka Hoshi) who – bullied in school by a group of girls, is trying to make herself as invisible as possible. This proves to be very difficult as she is regularly being followed and humiliated on her way home. Her bag ransacked, her belongings scattered in the grass, she is left to lie in the dirt day after day. The bullying scenes are not an easy watch, with the banality of groundless violence fully exposed.

In a whole other style then his usual, manga adaptation style (“Moteki”, “Bakuman” etc), Hitoshi One directs a film that was shot in a few days with a very small budget, based on the homonymous novel and play by Daisuke Miura. The story revolves around a number of individuals of the on-kyun (Dqn) tribe, youths in their 20s, with dead-end part-time jobs and makeshift love lives, who live in tiny apartments and seem to have no purpose in life.

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The story unfolds at a house part where the hosts are Kouji and Tomoko, and the ones invited are Yuuta, Kouji’s best friend; Naoki, Yuuta’s brother and his girlfriend, Satomi; Takashi, a kind of annoying young man who lives with Yuuta; Kaori, Tomoko’s friend whom Takashi is crazy about; Yuuko, another of Tomoko’s friends who is actually set up with another of the boys’ friends,...