Toyoko Tonight

An 20-min ethnographic film tracing the hidden warmth and loneliness behind Tokyo’s dazzling nightlife.

Visual Ethnography

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2024

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Team Project with Xiange Shi and Ting Tan

Starting from a group of teenagers who often gather behind the Toho Building in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho — known as the "Toyoko Kids" (トー横キッズ) — Toyoko Tonight (2024) weaves together stories from the neon-lit shadows of Tokyo: encounters between young men and women, girls and her little white rabbit, and the prayer of a homeless man.