S42.E12 ∙ Brave New Face

A corporate short promoting a new product launch in the United Kingdom.

Set in Tokyo, after the tragedy of 3.11, city started looks bright as used to, -Come Wander With Me portrays chaotic adolescent years of people in their early twenties who are living in Japan and grasping for their identities from the perspective of foreigners, half-Japanese and returnees crossing chaos of youth and daily documents by visual imagery. Using large amounts of found footage and collage, the film experiments with the presentation of reality and reflects upon aimless days in a modern society teeming with excess information and items. -Come Wander With Me to wonder.

They say that domestic robotics is hopelessly behind the world. Nonsense. We will visit the Izhevsk Dynamics plant, where robots are made, visit Izhevsk and Ussuriysk, listen to Vitaliy Nalivkin, the opponent of robotization.

Discover the beauty of Tay Ninh holy see, Vietnam.

This documentary is about people who live with forests in Japan and they tell the wisdom of living with the nature. The story starts from the midnight of October 2013 at Ise Jingu when the holly ceremony called 'Shikinen Sengu' was held. The ceremony is held in every 20 years for more than 1000 years and it is very connected to the forest and sustainability. After the Ise Jingu, the story goes around Japan to seek for the people who have very close relationship with the forests such as an oyster fisherman, a biologist, a composer and etc. Those people tell us why Japan has the faith with forest. Through this story, you might find the hint of how to solve the environmental problems and how you get along with this modern society.