
Asumi, an eighth grader, is taking a photography class. When she falls into a slump while taking pictures for a photography competition, she takes a dig at Riri, who always takes strange pictures and is the odd one out in the class. Unable to break out of her slump, Asumi goes to her teacher for advice and learns that Riri has dropped out of the photography class.
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Status
Released
Original Language
JA

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.