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Synopsis: Arriving in Paris at the age of 22 in 1950 to escape marriage, social pressure, and perhaps the Japanese mafia, this survivor of the bombing of Tokyo became dancer and actress. She managed to be the first Asian woman to become a lead actress seducing Western heroes on the big screen, in interracial love stories transgressing the conventions of the time. She gets full recognition in Cannes in 1960 with The Savage Innocents (Les Dents du Diable) by Nicholas Ray. From then on, she is a star, and will shoot fifty films and series.

Yoko seduced Westerners with her style and beauty, which she first showed stripping at the Crazy Horse. She was the one turning Europe from the “yellow peril” to the “Yellow Fever”, thus widening the codes of glamour…

The amazing and forgotten journey of this «Asian Josephine Baker» was also the brilliant posthumous revenge for a feminist mother died early during the war. As our research for this documentary discovered, Yoko’s mother, Taeko was an amazing feminist spritit, full of freedom and intelligence. She too was forgotten. Her book “Pour les jeunes filles qui avancent” (For young lady who move on), written just before her death, will be a guiding path for her daughter.

And these lessons in womanship will allow Yoko to succeed in the improbable: a career in a world of European entertainment, a scene that was then totally (and unconsciously) racist.

Summary: Alone in his atomic shelter, Clarence escaped the explosion of the nuclear power plant caused by an Islamist attack, leaving his wife in their villa, and that haunts him. Every day he makes desperate radio calls to signal his position and talk to somebody. One day, another survivor eventually answers, so Clarence escapes feels better. But when suddenly he is questioned by the police, reality shatters.... What really happened? Did his wife survive? Did the nuclear plant really explode?

Production: Fantastic Frog, Ghosts City Films.

Pitch: A bunch of broke neo-rural people from a small empty village believes they have found the solution to their money troubles with a small, absolutely risk-free scrap, since it is surreptitiously inspired by the well-informed manuscript of a crime novelist based in the village.
But they don’t know that she herself holds her excellent tips from the local police sergeant, who hit on her…

Production: Ghosts City Films, Fantastic Frog

Pitch: In the aftermath of WWII, in a rural village in the South of italy, Marta, a single mother betrothed to an older man she does not love, befriends Lorenzo, the local homosexual known as "man of the weddings ". Through him, she is introduced to the hidden community of gays in such an archaic place and starts challenging prejudices and hypocrisy to find her place in the world as a woman.

Production: Orisa Produizioni (Itlay) and Ghosts City Films