Shinzen Suikyoen follows catering staff working at a shrine wedding hall and entangles weddings, money, love, nation, and gods. From the labor of performing festive rituals, the history of a shrine dedicated to a Meiji military deity emerges.

Behind the glitter of wedding banquets, labor, faith, and national history collide noisily.

Deadline follows a graduate student rushing toward his thesis deadline as scholarship, desire, friendship, and bodily sensation intersect. Philosophical thinking and urban everyday life overlap under mounting time pressure.

Thought under deadline pressure unsettles the borders of friendship and desire.