TOURISM

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International Premiere

When Nina (Nina Endo) wins free airline tickets, she leaves her dingy apartment and part-time factory job in Yamato City, Japan for Singapore with her friend Su (Sumire). Wandering aimlessly through the tourist district, they are underwhelmed by national monuments and return to the familiarity of giant shopping malls, selfie stick in hand. But when Nina loses track of both Su and her smartphone, she stumbles into a more unmediated experience with Singapore’s streets, food and people. Director Daisuke Miyazaki’s follow-up to Yamato (California) (JAPAN CUTS 2017) is a pleasantly lowkey riff on alienation and materialism within a globalizing society shot in pseudo-documentary style, replete with quirky dance sequences, Snapchat filters, ghosts and a mysterious child narrator.

2018. 77 min. DCP, in Japanese, English and Malay with English subtitles. Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki. With Nina Endo, Sumire, Takayuki Yanagi.

"Miyazaki dissects his generation’s cultural angst as few of his contemporaries have done."

— Variety

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