Keiko Niitaka

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other vil...