06/07, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo

As infection rates slow down, attention turns to an economy desperate for foreign custom. Meanwhile, the wider region wrestles with new infections by protesting at signs of foreign alliances. Conversely, new Japanese films respond wearily to all this with their take on old sci-fi characters, a rediscovered classic from Tashio period cinema feels as relevant today as it ever did, and an old cinema house prepares to bid farewell with a documentary on walking, to reveal strange, unusual tales of a world to those who willingly travel on foot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices