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For members of Japan’s corporate class, financial security frequently means suffering gruelling overtime and institutional hazing. However, the alternative to the stresses that accompany Japan’s corporate culture can be equally grim. Unable to afford rising rent costs, some paycheck-to-paycheck workers have taken to living in internet café cubicles as they struggle to save money and get back on their feet. Shiho Fukada’s film follows two such Japanese men as they sleep in internet cafés at night and attempt to reinvent their lives during the day.
Director: Shiho Fukada
Producer: Eric Maierson
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Design and fashion
The mundane becomes mesmerising in this deep dive into segmented displays
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Architecture
Tour the European architecture that dreamed of a wondrous, fictitious China
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Spirituality
Trek alongside spiritual pilgrims on a treacherous journey across Pakistan
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Thinkers and theories
Photographs offer a colonialist window to the past – one that must be challenged
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Animals and humans
An artist and ants collaborate on an exhibit of ‘tiny Abstract Expressionist paintings’
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Mathematics
How a curious question about colouring maps changed mathematics forever
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Cities
The rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong’s infamous urban monolith
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Gender
When aggression is viewed as brilliance, it hurts women in science, and science itself
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Religion
From God’s shoes to satellites in heaven – children weigh in on religion
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