‘Ochiru’, by Kazuya Murayama, part of the Official Section of La Cabina 2017
Kiryū is a city of the prefecture of Gunma, Japan, where the textile industry has always played a big role. It is there that Kohei lives, a lone bachelor and introvert, who wastes his time at a run-down textile factory. One day he listens to a song by a local idol called Memetan, who happens…