Takuro Okada – Konoma

Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-deprivation therapy. Unfortunately, she is raped during the course of the therapy and becomes pregnant, leading to a denouement which any reader of the "Hot Blood" or "Borderlands" series will see coming a mile away. Kiyomi Okada stars with Asami Yamaguchi, Shoichiro Sakata, and Toru Moriya.

La continuación de Episodio G narra los hechos sucedidos tras la batalla contra Cronos, el Titán del tiempo y el Rey de los Titanes, y cuyo argumento principal sigue siendo la batalla de los Caballeros de Oro para proteger la Tierra y el control del Santuario de la amenaza de entidades divinas.

This programme highlights the performers and composers championed by La Belle Saison, and is derived from residencies and concerts, ‘precious means to enable us to experience and bring to life such monumental works as Schubert’s Octet’, says the violinist Pierre Fouchenneret, heard here alongside his prestigious partners Shuichi Okada (violin), Marc Desmons (viola), Victor Julien- Laferrière (cello), Yann Dubost (double bass), Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinet), Julien Hardy (bassoon) and David Guerrier (horn). They also present a new work by the composer, conductor and ex-cellist of the Quatuor Ébène Raphaël Merlin: ‘We were inspired by the asymmetry of Schubert’s Octet, in which three wind instruments are set against five stringed instruments; this is in keeping with the laws of acoustics and dynamics, but gives a relatively dark colour to the ensemble. The numbers 3, 5 and 8 evoke the Fibonacci sequence, which, like the golden section, underpins a very large number of works of the past and today. We enter into musical time in reference to the timespan of human life on earth and the acceleration of history…’

The lightest variant on Ozu's favourite theme. Instead of a father/daughter relationship, it focuses on a widow and the daughter who finds even the thought of her mother's remarriage offensive. There are new touches here: the comic chorus of old rogues trying to sort out both women's future and Mariko Okada as the 'modern miss' who cuts through tradition to ensure a happy ending. She's proof that not all Ozu's characters are meek and passive.