Rainbow Reel Competition

We have a wonderful selection of Japanese films this year!
The Grand Prize is hanging on your vote!

☆All non-English films have English subtitles.

Schedule

7/17(Mon)16:00~
 @Spiral Hall

Eternal Sky

Eternal Sky

Eternal Sky
Dir:Yuta NAGAHAMA
2016|Japan|20min|Japanese
Trailer

[Youth][Romance][Drama][L]


Kaoru and Rina, third-year high school students and drama club members, are secret lovers. Kaoru, who had played the leading role many times before, couldn’t win the lead of the graduation show. Instead, it was Rina who was chosen for the role. From that day on, they start drifting apart.

DEAREST

DEAREST

DEAREST
Dir:Kana MARUYAMA
2016|Japan|19min|Japanese
Trailer
[Romance][Drama][G][B]


One morning, filled with the laziness and intimacy of the night before, Hiro hears the sudden news from Mitsu that he is going to “marry his girlfriend”. Hiro can’t object to Mitsu’s decision, knowing he is bisexual and determines to break up with him…

CHROMOSOME SWEETHEART

CHROMOSOME SWEETHEART

CHROMOSOME SWEETHEART
Dir:Honami YANO
2017|Japan|5min|Japanese
Official Site
Trailer

[Animation][L]


Some people face each other at a café, others sucking on hair, streets passing by, a girl walking along the riverbed. There are all sorts of people in the world, and there are all shapes of love. Casting Ataru Nakamura, it’s a true gem of art animation.

Are you really Umekichi?

Are you really Umekichi?

Are you really Umekichi?
Dir:Naomi TAKAYAMA
2014|Japan|23min|Japanese
Official Site
Trailer

[Youth][Comedy][T]


One day,a sullen, unpopular, bullied boy Umekichi finds out about the student council president Ryunosuke, who is hugely popular with girls, is male-to-female transgender. As they get closer to each other, Umekichi starts to fall in love with the girl inside Ryunosuke…

SPRING LIKE LOVERS

SPRING LIKE LOVERS

SPRING LIKE LOVERS
Dir:Daisuke SHIGAYA
2017|Japan|31min|Japanese
Trailer

[Romance][Drama][G]


Spring is still a long way away. Shin and Kazu are lovers. One day, after they quarrel over a trivial matter, Kazu leaves Shin and get in touch with an ex-boyfriend, Takashi. But Takashi has a wife. As he cares about him, this fact torments himself and the one he loves…

Kalanchoe

Kalanchoe

Kalanchoe
Dir:Shun NAKAGAWA
2017|Japan|39min|Japanese
Official Site
Trailer

[Youth][Drama][L]


In a high school classroom, they have a lesson called “About LGBT”. As there is no such lesson in other classes, the students grow suspicious. “Is there a LGBT in our class?” Confusion spreads in their everyday life…