
Yusaku Matsumoto was born in Kobe in 1992. He entered the Osaka Visual Arts College and started directing commercials when he was 21. He is also the director of Extreme VR. NOISE is his film debut and was officially invited to the 41st Montreal World Film Festival and 25th Raindance Film Festival.

Bullied for wanting to be an idol, Kenji finds belonging in a cabaret and help from a trailblazing doctor, emerging onstage as her true self, Ai Haruna.

Programmer Isamu Kaneko is arrested as the creator of Winny, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that quickly became the software of choice for online piracy in Japan.