Ringu wandaringu
Sosuke lives in central Tokyo and aspires to be a manga artist. He has reached a dead end in his current work about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. One winter’s day at the construction site where he makes a living, Sosuke finds an animal skull. He takes it home. Could it be a Japanese wolf’s skull? “In 2020, the main character, Sosuke, looking for the extinct Japanese wolf, finds an animal's skull under the ground of Tokyo. With this skull, he travels through time into Tokyo’s past world of the people who passed on and he experiences the value of life." (Masakazu Kaneko)
A film like a window opening into the rich tradition and heritage of the Eastern world that a young man searches for.The film shows the desire of young people to help others, revealing the secret of happiness, a secret that can be felt but neither objectified nor captured. By preserving, sharing and celebrating human values, the film operates on a high artistic level.