"The Albino's Trees", my second feature film, focuses on an animal of rare appearance that is hiding in the deep forest. This animal is believed to be a god of the mountain by the local village people, who are trying to preserve a perspective on nature that they have held since ancient times. On the other hand, the people of the larger neighbouring town have embraced modern life and they see the animal as evidence of contamination that needs to be eradicated. Should we revere and protect that which lies beyond common sense and knowledge, or should we exterminate an unknown which might cause us harm? It is not easy to answer definitively, and in any given period of history, humans find themselves on either side of this divide, fighting and even hating one another in order to protect their positions and their way of life. In this movie, amidst the conflict over the life and death of an animal that is the heart of the drama, I tried to express the importance of thinking about others. This is something that I think we're losing sight of, living in societies full of confrontation, rejection and intolerance caused by differences of culture or ideology. I would be glad if people who watch this movie feel a sense of the profundity and abundance in nature and in human life.

The Albino's Trees

Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest game.

My Long Awaited Love Story

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.

Kabuk ve Eklem

A boy who can't eat a tomato was pushed by his mother to overcome his least favorite. When he swallowed it, something sprouted from his own body. The boy doubted the tomato he ate and visited a tomato farm to find out what happened to him. There he met a scary farmer and ran away. The mother still tries to make her son able to eat a tomato.  This script was generated from AI, shot by alumnus of the national film school as a cutting-edge R&D project.