Streaming Period: Sept 18th 0:00 ~ Sept 22nd 24:00 (Silver Week holidays in Japan, Friday-Tuesday). Price: 1000yen or $9.5. After you start viewing, you\u2019ll have a 72hr access to the films. Please also come to a Live Q&A with the five up-and-coming Japanese indie directors! English-Japanese translation available. Mon, Sept 21, 11:00AM~ RSVP\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n After viewing, please\u00a0cast your vote<\/a>\u00a0for the Audience Award!<\/p>\n We also have\u00a0Festival Pass for Japan-Streaming<\/a>\u00a0(\uffe51500 for 3 programs with a fee) and\u00a0Festival Pass for Outside-Japan Streaming<\/a>\u00a0($12 for 2 programs with a fee) . The Japan Shorts program is included in both types of festival pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 2020, Japan, 23min, drama, color, in Japanese with English open semi-caption subtitles<\/p>\n \u201cThey say we sometimes come to heaven in our dreams.\u201d Natsumi wakes up one day and finds herself in Yokosuka, and Yuto, a childhood friend who died in a car crash when they were in the 5th grade, is there. In the fabricated, surreal movie world, this intriguing film shows what real life feels like for today\u2019s early-twenty-somethings in Japan.<\/p>\n Director: Yuiga DANZUKA<\/strong> *At UPAF, we add open semi-caption subtitles for the films that we translate on our own. Audio descriptions and speaker IDs are occasionally inserted for as many audiences as possible to enjoy films together.<\/p>\n 2019, Japan\/US, 1\u201943\u201d, animation, color, w\/ Japanese and English subtitles There is a photo of me taken on the day I came home from the hospital. In it, my grandfather is intently looking at baby me sleeping on a futon. One night 20 years later, I had a strange dream. In it, I woke up and saw my grandfather sleeping beside me. The unshaven beard on his chin seemed so real that I almost felt I could touch it, just by extending my arm. I looked intently at my grandfather who appeared to be sleeping peacefully.<\/p>\n Director: Kaori Yasunaga<\/strong> 2013, Japan, 30min, drama, color, in Japanese with English open semi-caption subtitles. Yoshio and Masami broke up 6 month ago, but still live together in a studio apartment in Tokyo. Yoshio, an introvert who doesn\u2019t seem to leave the apartment much, is obsessed with social media. Masami wants him to leave, but doesn\u2019t know how to tell him and remains troubled as a result. This film is a social rom com depicting a man and a woman of around thirty, and their dependence on each other.<\/p>\n Director: Takuya Matsumoto<\/strong> 2020, Japan\/China, 15min, documentary, color, in Japanese with English, Japanese, and Mandarin subtitles Since coming to Japan, I\u2019ve become more conscious of my own background, and began to see China and myself from a distance. Suddenly something felt off, and it became a habit to ask myself why I was here in Japan. In the 1990s, many Chinese came to Japan to work. My parents also lived here for a while. I realized that my generation came here to study while my parents\u2019 generation came to work. I experimented by documenting my thoughts comparing the present and the past. With anxiety about the future, I looked for the answers to my own questions.<\/p>\n Director: Yuan Shuohan<\/strong> 2019, Japan, 16\u201940\u201d, animation, color, in Japanese with English open semi-caption subtitles Ugly Kegaard is a painter who lives with his grandmother. Unlike his pious grandmother, Kegaad was skeptical of God\u2019s existence. But upon meeting Dercolia, a deeply religious girl, he starts thinking about the meaning of faith. This animation film is entirely pencil drawn with the theme of appearance and faith. By reflecting the creator\u2019s own discomfort with physical appearance onto Kegaard\u2019s character, and by having him inquire about it to a fictional God, the film questions the meaning of the existence of physical ugliness in this world.<\/p>\n Director: Sho Yamamoto<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, this entry is only available in \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,156,158],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-moie","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-5419","7":"format-standard","8":"has-post-thumbnail","9":"category-archives","10":"category-156","11":"category-2020-short-films"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI Was In Heaven<\/p>\n
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\nBorn in 1998. A drop-out of Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and a recent graduate of the FIlm School of Tokyo. His previous film \u201cAi wo tamukeruyo\u201d won the Grand Prix Award at the 24th Nagaoka Film Festival and was selected to several other film festivals. \u201cI Was In Heaven\u201d just won a director and male lead actor award at Kadoma Int\u2019l Film festival in August 2020.<\/p>\nThe World of Dew<\/p>\n
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\nDirector: Kaori Yasunaga<\/p>\n
\nKaori is a filmmaking major and rising senior at the\u00e5 Rhode Island School of Design in the US.<\/p>\nMy Tweet Memories<\/p>\n
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\nDirector: Takuya Matsumoto<\/p>\n
\nTakuya, Director of the film production group Cinema Kenkokai (Cinema Health Group), performed as part of a comedy duo for 10 years until his partner left him. Subsequently, he learned filmmaking on his own. While producing commercial films, he also produces independent films to express himself through creating original works of art.<\/p>\nWhy I Am Here Now<\/p>\n
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\nDirector: Yuan Shuohan<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Shanghai in 1998, Yuan has been studying at Musashino Art University since 2017.
\nTaking what I felt as the main ingredients, I experiment with various media by combining the \u201cstories\u201d and \u201caccidents\u201d born out of my daily life, and create art as a way to recreate my own reality through my life experiences.<\/p>\nHair<\/p>\n
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\nDirector: Sho Yamamoto<\/p>\n
\nSho graduated from Musashino Art University. He creates moving images, oil paintings, electronic music, etc. Past films include:
\nLifeforms (2008): Best Award in the 2008 Musashino Art University Thesis Show
\nImi wo sagasou (Look for the meaning)\u201d (2013): Grand Prix at the Nasu International Short Film Festival; Official Selection at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival, the Himeji International Short Film Festival, and the Chofu Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n