Robinson’s Garden

A radical and magical vision of 1980s Tokyo from the point of view of its counterculture.

On a drunken walk, Kumi stumbles upon an abandoned factory building and is taken with the wild garden growing within it. She leaves her multicultural commune, sells her belongings and plants cabbages as she returns to the land. But she is unable to remain solo, as others squat, and nature itself seems to rebel.

Yamamoto’s trippy film with its Japanese punk aesthetic won a Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival and is a rare, radical vision of a marginal, multicultural Tokyo, offering a stark contrast to the sights of financial prosperity brought forth by the films of the Economic Bubble era.

Part of our Restorations & Rediscoveries series, this new 2K restoration is courtesy of Kani Releasing.

“An unsung, anticapitalist masterwork.” (Kani Releasing)

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In Japanese with English subtitles