The Band’s New Stage

Directed by Takeshi Tanaka

Shorts / Japan / 2017 / Narrative Fiction, Short / 25 mins / Japanese with English subtitles / Color / DCP

Plays In:

TOYKO BEATS

New People Cinema
May 13, 2018 9:15 pm Not Available

Description

Believing that the residents of Oki Islands are uninformed about current music trends, Aoki promotes WWW, his no-name band, as a famous group from Tokyo. When the islanders welcome WWW with nothing but kindness, Aoki is determined to have his best performance yet.

— Shuang Kung

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Director :Takeshi Tanaka

Plays in

TOYKO BEATS

Music & Live Performances / 82 mins
In a society where conformity is the norm, it is never easy to break the mold. TOKYO BEATS spins out three shorts that illustrate the difficulties of “making it big” in Tokyo and the hurdles that people must overcome to pursue the things that they love.
In This Program: The Band’s New Stage, Let’s Go Home!, Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)