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- Jintaro, a 24-year-old fisherman in a backward village on the Pacific Coast does not have many friends, but can't find time to spend with all the girls who are after him. Osome, his promised fiancée, is not at all shy, and in fact the couple has sex before marriage, and are the village priests in the immemorial fertility rites. Shizui will try to break this perfect arrangement by trying to have Jintaro for herself alone - but even that will not be a problem. (The original film title translates literally as «The Women's Large Fish Catch Festival».)
- In this powerful documentary, first-time director Danny Samit uses a steady, unrelenting style to present Wada, Japan. Wada is one of the last remaining traditional whaling villages in coastal Japan with a yearly hunt of 26 Baird's beaked whales. Revealing interviews with townspeople, scientists, and environmentalists are intertwined seamlessly with footage of the whaling town and unprecedented access to its butcher house. Samit's film elegantly shows that there isn't one distinct Japanese perspective on whaling. It closely examines what actually happens to the whales and their meat, and wrestles with the whaling controversy through the lens of a small town trying to hold onto its tradition, forced to defend itself against the world's scrutiny.