The filmmaker, herself transgender, attempts to dismantle mass-media stereotypes of sexual minorities as heretical, peculiar, and perverse. She layers interviews with the staff and participants of the “Joso New Half Propaganda” event, following their lives and questioning the nature of diverse gender and sexualities.
September 11 2011, half a year since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor, “Amateur Riot” stages yet another anti-nuclear power demonstration in Tokyo. Out of 10,000 participants, the police arrested 12 protesters. All were ultimately released uncharged, over the course of 12 days. One of those arrested was the director’s boyfriend. This documentary follows his story, from arrest to release.