Underground (2024)

Emerging from the darkness underground, a shadow takes the form of a woman (played by filmmaker and dancer Nao Yoshigai) and journeys across sites marked by memory and loss, notably the Okinawan caves (gama), where many died during World War II. Moving through the caves, tunnels, and submerged landscapes, she encounters traces of the past, from the voices of the dead to rituals of remembrance.

Through a striking interplay of sound, darkness, and fleeting light, Underground blurs the boundaries between documentary and the imagined, visually and sonically investigating memory, history, and trauma across these and other sites in Japan.