We will hold the Hikikomori Festival <Art & Movie>!

Video work: From 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Art work: From Friday, January 10, 2025 to Wednesday, January 15, 2025
※On January 15, the last day of the event, we plan to add a one-day limited art work.

Atrium on the 1st floor of Yokohama City Hall/Exhibition Spaces A and B
Location: 6-50-10, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi

• Screening of video work with the theme of hikikomori [C: Atrium]
• Exhibition of art works by contemporary artists [A: Exhibition Space A]
• Exhibition of works by Youth Consultation Center and Regional Youth Plaza [B: Exhibition Space B]

※It is an event that requires no application, free entry and exit, and free admission.

• Directly connected to Exit 1C of Bashamichi Station in Minato Mirai Line
• 3-minute walk (approximately 200 meters) from JR Sakuragicho Station New South Exit (City Hall Exit)
• A 3-minute walk from Sakuragicho Station Subway (approximately 200 meters)

Yokohama City Hall Atrium website (outside site)

If you can't move because of the difficulty of living, enter the eaves until the heart's rain stops, and if the rain stops, you can go out quickly.…。 The protagonist looks back on the situation at that time and says "stop." Tatsuo has been withdrawn for about 20 years since the age of 27 due to his trauma at work. What comes to the heart of revisiting the workplace at that time?…。 On the other hand, Tae has been withdrawn for about 4 years from the age of 12 and about 13 years from the age of 27. Follow a place of memories when he was 20 years old who decided to go to junior high school at night. They met and married at a employment support facility for the purpose of independence. I live in Hiroshima while supporting each other. When you want to become independent and want to work, in the "resume", the date when you did not give up suffering and living becomes "blank". A documentary in which the withdrawal party talks about the blank part.

This work progresses from the perspective of the two families, the Kishimoto family and the Taniguchi family.
Seiichi Taniguchi has been withdrawn from his home for more than 20 years. He lives with his parents, but lives in cramped so as not to meet each other as much as possible. When her daughter became a high school student, Maho Kishimoto started working as a part at a nearby coffee shop "Kampagnera". In his neighborhood, he said, "My son (of the Taniguchi family) seems to have not been working all the time. Be careful."
One day, Maho Kishimoto hears a shout and loud noise from the Taniguchi family behind the scenes saying "Go out!" The next day, Maho talks with Yoko Taniguchi and consults with Yoko. Listen to Seiichi's withdrawal, he doesn't know what to do, and he's anxious, and starts thinking about what he can do.
Maho, who examined the withdrawal support center on the Internet, introduced it to Yoko. Yoko will be consulted at the support center. In addition, Maho realizes that "hikikomori" can happen to anyone after an injured daughter tends to stay at home. Therefore, together with the coffee shop master Keisuke Hikita, we plan a “Hikikomori Off Party” to gather and interact with hikikomori.
Seiichi listens to Yoko about support centers and coffee shop events, but still doesn't move.
The number of participants has increased since the off-site was held several times. "You don't have to do your best in the block of Hiketa. Seiichi, who saw the word "I just have fun."

Masao Kurata (Kennichi Matsuyama) has lived with hikikomori for more than 10 years. I was unable to work due to heavy stress. His strict father, Kazuo (Tetsuya Takeda), is a former teacher. Although he is respected in the local area, he also gave up hiding Masao's presence from the public and recovering it. But when he declared his life expectancy, he finally faced his son again. On the other hand, Masao was desperately searching for a way to get out of hikikomori in a closed room.

People using the Youth Consultation Center and Regional Youth Plaza will exhibit daily program activities and illustrations, photographs, handicrafts, and literary works created at home.

Exhibition of works at Exhibition Space B on the 1st floor of Yokohama City Hall