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This is a short film depicting the problems that hafu people are facing in Japan. The main character, Keisuke, moves to a new town in country side and changes the elementary school. One of his classmates insists that Keisuke has HIV because he has a black skin. I realized the problem of education on diseases. In the textbook, the photos of the patients of HIV is mostly black people. Furthermore, there is not enough explanations about HIV at schools. Therefore, children tend to have a wrong idea that HIV can be seen in only black people. Also, they don't understand how HIV is contracted. There are many other films that depicts these problems of HIV education, such as BPM. Those films all insists the necessity of children's deeper understanding of HIV to decrease the infection rate. I think this short film succeeds in depicting the ongoing problems of not only racial discrimination but also education systems of Japan. It can be the good teaching material for anyone.

This film is a story about a woman who misses a train and has lunch to kill some time. I think the interesting point of this film is that although there is no clear explanation, we can assume the characteristics of the woman by only watching the first 30 seconds of the film. There are two points which shows the characteristics of the woman in this film. Firstly, the woman dresses up shiwily, carrying many shopping bags in her hands. We can easily assume that the woman is rich. Secondly, when the woman cannons into a man and he tries to gather the strewn items of the purse, she coldly denies his help and leaves him quickly. She does not believe people easily. She may be a very suspicious person. Since this film is only ten minutes long, there is not enough time to explain the character's characteristics in detail. This film succeeds in depicting the least information about the main character possible to describe in such limited time.