Garden of the Lower Depths

2016

"This experimental melodrama follows Hikari, and her boyfriend Taro’s visit to his family home. While there Hikari forms an unexpected relationship with Taro’s auntie, Kyoto. As their relationship develops it becomes clear that Kyoko is struggling to control her mental state and the issues that ensue. Taro discovers that Hikari has had a brief affair with a friend of Kyoko’s and cannot control his emotions. This film is about the destruction of old love, and the cultivation of new love becoming tainted by history repeating itself." -UMMMI.