Storyville
Season 21 Episode 14 - Tokyo Girls
Girl bands and pop music permeate Japanese life. This film gets to the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity. Meet Rio - a bona fide Tokyo idol who takes us on her journey toward fame. Now meet her 'brothers' - a group of adult male superfans who devote their lives to following her, in the virtual world and in real life. Once considered to be on the fringes of society, the brothers who gave up salaried jobs to pursue an interest in female idol culture have since become mainstream via the internet, illuminating the growing disconnect between men and women in hypermodern societies. Tokyo Girls explores the Japanese pop music industry and its focus on traditional beauty ideals, confronting the nature of gender power dynamics at work. As the female idols become younger and younger, the film looks at the veil of internet fame and the new terms of engagement that are playing out in real life around the globe.
Episodes in Season 21
Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
85 min
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
85 min
Notes On Blindness
85 min
Life, Animated
85 min
Killing For Love
85 min
Murder in Italy
85 min
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
85 min
Last Days of Solitary
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 2
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 3
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
90 min
Tokyo Girls
85 min
Oink: Man Loves Pig
85 min
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
85 min
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
85 min
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
85 min
Queerama
85 min
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
85 min
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
85 min
The Boy Who Changed America
85 min
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
85 min
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
85 min
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
85 min
My Mother's Lost Children
85 min
Last Men in Aleppo
85 min
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
85 min
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
85 min
