ANDO (Shin-Dejima Festival)

Ando is a cool-headed playmaker in a criminal organization who directs his subordinates in a phone scam operation. If he can pull this off, he plans to exit the organization and become free. However, the swindle fails and he finds out that one of his subordinates has been killed and the hidden 80 million yen has vanished. Ando focuses on getting things under control, but realizes another scheme is in the works. The situation deteriorates and drives Ando into an increasingly desperate position. Yoshiaki Arai’s debut feature builds its tension around one man on screen and the voices and sounds reaching him from elsewhere. A single-location crime-suspense about a man losing his grip on a world he thought he controlled. This film was selected for the Nippon Visions section at Nippon Connection 2026.