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A barefoot boy with frightened eyes. He wanders the streets, rides the bus, and wanders the fields without speaking. In the passing landscape, he sees red balloons, deer heads, puddles of blood, the Japanese flag, the Old Testament, an old man...Then, with a gunshot, he collapses. In this film, the boy's closed mind to the outside world is painstakingly portrayed through a variety of images, and his sincere feelings are quietly conveyed.
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JA

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.

Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called “Otokoyo”; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.