An original work directed, based on, and written by Jyoji Iida of “NIGHT HEAD,” this is a theatrical preview version of the TV drama “Kamisama no Saikoro,” which began airing on October 9, 2024. It depicts five video streamers who are caught up in a life-or-death escape game. Akagi, a music streamer, is growing impatient as his number of channel subscribers fails to increase. At that moment, he hears from Shiraishi, a former colleague who is now a hugely popular cooking streamer, about a “doll that grants wishes.” It is a magical doll handed down among a small ethnic group in Africa, and if a ritual is performed using the doll, any wish can be granted, though an equivalent price is demanded in return. In order to perform the ritual, Akagi reaches out to Shiraishi as well as Kurotani, Aoyama, and Midorikawa, with whom he once worked as the streamer group “Five Colors,” and the group reunites...。 Masanari Wada, who is active across film, stage, musicals, and more, plays the protagonist Akagi. Shunta Sono of the dance-vocal unit “M!LK” plays Shiraishi; Yo Maejima of “Kamen Rider Amazons Season 2” plays Kurotani; Keito Sakurai, known for stage productions such as “Touken Ranbu” and “World Trigger,” plays Aoyama; and Raiga Terasaka of “Ultraman Trigger” plays Midorikawa. In addition, Yuka Hyoudo, Tetsu Watanabe, and others appear, and the popular three-member idol group “Task have fun” makes an appearance as themselves.

“33 minutes and 33 seconds needed before the world ends” A dying Earth. A strange game played by the survivors: “Mood Hall.” A mysterious middle-aged gentleman and a beautiful woman, appearing and disappearing. Little people. Giants. A party. A desert. The bottom of a pool. Dance. Day and night, repeated again and again. Experimental, artistic, adventurous, half sci-fi, half mystery: a densely layered labyrinthine world made of sketches. A masterpiece of film that strips away words and leads you into a world of seeing and hearing alone! ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ In 2016, “Mood Hall” was presented as the latest installation in Kawaiokamura’s retrospective exhibition. It was Kawaiokamura’s first new work in nine years, with sound direction for the entire solo show handled by Mariko Harada. In 2019, “Mood Hall” was completed as a film work, and in 2020 it was released theatrically at Demachiza, a cinema in Kyoto. The music, of course, was by Mariko Harada. It brought the richly layered 33-minute-and-33-second world of image and sound to the screens and speakers of the movie theater. In 2022, the music for “Mood Hall” was completely rewritten by Kazumichi Komatsu. It was made neither as an installation nor for a cinema, but as a composition intended for streaming. Reading the visuals like a score, he struck the sound against the images so powerfully that they changed, and linked each segment through a distinctive sense of floating weightlessness. Reconstructed through Komatsu’s bold interpretation, “Mood Hall” was named “Mood Hall side B.”

An exploration of the tactile textures of the natural world by Onesal What is ASMR? The Japanese art studio Onesal has launched a series of four short films that offer a fresh, visual approach to expressing ASMR. It is called Visual ASMR, or Visual Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is a subjective, euphoric experience characterized by a combination of imaginative emotions and electric-like tingling sensations. Covered in organic elements of vivid colors, natural sculptures set in landscapes that are at once strange and earth-like evolve and grow at a microscopic level in each film. Everything takes place across four otherworldly landscapes, categorized to closely examine interaction, movement, and evolution with surrounding elements. Each shot is composed using elements of nature, architecture, and time-lapse. The work examines textures and tactile elements that morph and interact in unreal environments. This endeavor began by balancing nature and design, and by blurring the boundary between simplicity and complexity in an abstract way.