Directing
Tokyo Drifter acts as an ode to Tokyo, with a very simple premise: a musician (Kenta Maeno) wanders around various darkened areas of the city on a rainy night in May with his guitar, singing songs about life, love, and Tokyo itself. Matsue and Maeno together take the city in all its gritty glory and attempt to shine a light on the darkness.
Candidates who dream of becoming idols face a grueling survival camp with the current members of the idol group BiS!
The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demonstration demanding rights for permanent part-timers, and is featured on TV as "a poor, unhappy temporary worker." Despite having made his own choice to live as a permanent part-timer, he says that "the days feel like drowning in shallow water." But during the diary-like documentation of his life, something changes...
A behind-the-scenes documentary of WACK's 2018 audition camp: - Takes place in March 2018 on Iki Island (remote island in Nagasaki Prefecture, ~1 hour by ferry from Fukuoka). - Features 24 aspiring idol candidates striving to join WACK’s groups: BiSH, BiS, GANG PARADE, and EMPiRE. - Participants endure grueling challenges: singing, dancing, marathons, squats, even “life game” style tests. Their lives are documented round-the-clock. - Each night, emotional eliminations reveal raw vulnerability and heartbreak as dreams clash with reality.
A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother, poisoning her with thallium and documenting the results.
No description available.
Documentary shot with 17 cameras covering a gigantic free party featuring two bands and an idol unit. Produced by HMJM of the unorthodox hit The Sex Cannon Ball Run 2013, The Movie, with Iwabuchi Hiroki as director. November 18, 2015. Throngs of people gather at the concert hall LIQUIDROOM in Ebisu, Tokyo in response to an appeal from Asami Hokuto of the rock band Have a Nice Day! The concert picks up momentum and a mosh pit forms in the audience.
