Dubai, UAE, June 9, 2016: Born from a giant peach to a childless couple, Momotar¯o left his parents to fight a band of marauding demons. On the way, he befriends a dog, a monkey and a pheasant, who decide to become his allies. Momotar¯o is a beloved hero of Japanese folklore. He’s a symbol of determination and strength. Written by directors Partel Oliva in response to KENZO’s Japanese-accented pre fall collection, “Sun To Sun” is a girl-centric version of the classic folk tale. In their retelling, Momotar¯o becomes Momoko, the center of an exploded narrative paying homage to Takashi Homma’s suburbia photography, the Neo-Tokyo from Akira’s father Katsuhiro Otomo and delinquent girls’ vitality in Sukeban cinema. In becoming a girl, demon-slayer Momotar¯o grows ambiguous. Through a slippery stream of images, Momoko is soft and hard, good and bad, dreamy and forceful. She starts as real, a solitary girl on the beach, only to morph into a lawless gang of anime bikers. Meanwhile, she began to sports two black dots right above the eyes, a medieval ornament used by women, inspired from moths patterns, as magnetizing as inviting to keep your distances. Shot over two days in Kamakura’s coastline, Fujisawa’s infinite suburbs and Tokyo’s lights, “Sun to Sun” pairs four Harajuku queens (cast with help from street-style magazine “Fruits”) with four stuntwomen. It features music by legendary collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi.
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