Wataru (Ryota Bando), a quiet factory worker, Eiji (Rion Takahashi), a hot-blooded restaurant employee, and Mitsunori (Naoya Shimizu), a seemingly gentle carer, are childhood friends. On a late autumn afternoon, with too much time on their hands, they unleash their anger at the at the petty transgressions and discriminations of people in the street, in the name of 'Reformation'.

This new film by Ryutaro Ninomiya is the story of young people resisting the future, while questioning their aimless lives.

His second feature film, Sweating the Small Stuff, in which he also starred, was the only Japanese entry in the feature film category at the 70th Locarno International Film Festival. His film Dreaming In Between was officially selected at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, as part of ACID Cannes 2023.

This is the very first title of the new film label New Counter Film.

We are cogitoworks Ltd, a Japanese film production/distribution company that just started to release our own produced film to the UK in 2023.
Our films could be seen as ‘the films showing in JAPAN now’.
We would like to deliver 2 to 3 films on a consistent yearly basis to the UK from now on.

Event Information

Phoenix Cinema: 020 8444 6789
52 High Rd London N2 9PJ
24 June: 3pm
https://www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/movie/wakamusha-2
27 June (with Q&A): 8pm
https://www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/movie/wakamusha-director-qa
Ticket: £7.5 or £8

Whirled Cinema: 020 7737 6153
259-260 Hardess Street, Loughborough Junction, London SE24 OHN
24 & 27 June: 8pm
26 June (with Q&A): 8pm
https://www.whirledcinema.com/screenings/loughborough-junction-screening/4915/wakamusha
Ticket: £12

The Garden Cinema: 020 3369 5000
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
28 June (with Q&A): 3pm
https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/wakamusha-qa/
Ticket: £12

Genesis Cinema: 020 7780 2000
93-95 Mike End Road, Bethnal Green, London E1 4UJ
29 June:  (with Q&A): 6pm
https://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/movie/wakamusha-qa/
Tickets: £11,£12, and £13