Yoshimasa Jimbo

On the Zero Line

Mehrdad Ghafarzadeh, Yoshimasa Jimbo

Mehdi Ahmadi, Kanako Mizumoto

A poet who lost his words and a woman who miscarried her baby meet on the equator, and two emotions start to mingle at the point of latitude 0°.

Here and Elsewhere, On and On

Yoshimasa Jimbo

What is the difference between children and adults? Nine-year-old Motoho gave herself this assignment for summer break homework and in order to answer her question she goes around the neighborhood interviewing people. At the same time, a film crew is also filming in the same town, based on the feelings invoked by the words “far away…”

僕はもうすぐ十一歳になる。

Yoshimasa Jimbo

Hibiki Hamada, Shie

An elementary school boy, Shogo, catches insects and collects them at home every day during his school's winter break. Shogo knows there is a much larger insect collection in his father's room, which is always locked. But when his father Toru comes back from his job overseas, where he is touched by the reincarnation philosophy of India and Bhutan, he tells Shogo that he doesn't want to collect insects anymore. Shogo's grandfather, Tadashi, treats his dead wife's ashes as a living figure, but the noodles Tadashi gives her remains in a bowl. “Has grandma reincarnated into something else?” Seeing adults' different views of life and death, Shogo wonders what death is all about.