coming of age, friendship, identity, self-discovery, mental health | Suicide, Violence
When runaway teen Ju-Ju is embraced by a tribe of misfit youths in Kabukicho, she finds belonging for the first time — until betrayal and despair twist her haven into a prison, and she’s left with one way to take back control.
Born in Tokyo in 1984, Makoto Nagahisa became a filmmaker after working in advertising for 15 years. His previous films have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Known for inventive visual techniques, he excels at portraying the emotions of young people in films such as We Are Little Zombies (2019), And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool (2012) and his most recent short, Pisko the Crab Child is in Love (2024). He directed an episode of the Apple TV+ series “Sunny” produced by A24, and created the short film Kaguya by Gucci as part of Gucci’s global campaign. He is strongly influenced by filmmakers Luis Buñuel, Nagisa Oshima, and Takeshi Kitano.
