TOKYO STORIES No.03_TOKYO GREAT WALL

{"version":1,"blocks":[{"kind":"heading","text":"Official synopsis"},{"kind":"paragraph","text":"The festival page places the story in near-future Tokyo. A law prohibiting excessive inflow to the capital, known as the sealed-city law, isolates the metropolis behind a colossal structure called the Tokyo Wall."},{"kind":"heading","text":"Artistic focus"},{"kind":"paragraph":"The film’s dramatic engine is a simple mirrored situation: one child wants to cross into the walled city while another character wants to leave it. The jury praised the clarity of this setup, the strength of the world-building and the way its Japanese characters speak English without breaking the film’s future setting."}]}