This experience will be FREE to the public and will be available in-person at the Entrepreneurs Sandbox NOV 20 & 21 from 12:00PM – 6:00PM. Visitors are REQUIRED to register in advance for a time-slot to participate. Registration will open soon. Check back here, or on the HIFF XR page. This VR film brings to …
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When Japanese chef Yoshinori Ishii is dismayed by the quality of fish in London, he takes it upon himself to investigate why. Through skill, ethics and passion, he sparks a fish revolution in the United Kingdom.
In Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s triptych of short films, coincidence and chance encounters interrupt the fragile reality of waking life. Alternately playful, comedic, and cynical, WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY plumbs the theatrical depths hidden beneath simple stories: an unexpected love triangle, an attempt to seduce and blackmail a professor, and a meeting between two old friends. …
A grandfather has, by his count, 230 confessions to share with his granddaughter. A loner wanders into a fishing town and finds himself getting mixed up with a violent sea crew. A nerdy high school student befriends a weird classmate who is obsessed with his sister … who does not actually exist. An unemployed father …
When Anthony Bourdain was once asked, ‘If you could only eat in one city for the rest of your life, where would that be?’ He answered without hesitation, ‘Tokyo.’ Tokyo is a culinary mecca for a number of reasons, including the incredible breadth, diversity and deliciousness of Japanese cuisine. However, one of the things that …
Based on the acclaimed Japanese manga series of the same name, THE FABLE: THE KILLER WHO DOESN’T KILL is the follow-up to Kan Eguchi’s 2019 action film, and continues the story of legendary hitman Akira Sato, aka The Fable (Junichi Okada). Known for his ruthlessness and quick kills, The Fable is ordered by his boss …
Becoming blind as an infant at the dawn of the 20th century, Haru had little in the way of opportunity as a young girl in Japan. With her father passed and her mother ill, Haru’s best option is to become a “goze” – a traveling singer and storyteller respected by many of the common folk. …
High school student Minami has a happy life with her mom and stepdad, enjoys swimming and her favorite anime Buffalo Koteko the Magical Plasterer. She’s never met her biological father, but hasn’t been too bothered about that. However, when she receives a mysterious handwritten talisman in the mail it sets off a chain of events …
In the summer of 1988, video production for home rentals were at their highest demand. And at one film studio, a rookie female director of a new film is pushing her production to the brink. Frequently melting down and isolating herself from everyone, giving vague and contradictory directions, and insisting on dozens of takes per …
In 1970s Koza, Okinawa during the American occupation, American GIs streamed into town en route to Vietnam, and live music clubs raked in enough nightly cash to build a house. Koza brimmed with money, riots, and rock n’ roll music. 50 years later, the excitement is long gone, and plans to develop the area into …
