Invisible TOKYO

Music producer Tetsuya Komuro, model/actress Elaiza Ikeda, C-channel president Akira Morikawa, and Tokyo Girls Collection executive producer Noriyoshi Murakami. What are the impacts of social networking? Have we evolved to live in this connected-yet-closed world? Or has it set us back? We're living in an entangled world. A world centered around girls. Invisible TOKYO.

Production

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Seasons

8 Episodes • Premiered 2016

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1. Introduction to the Invisible World

Episode 1 features music producer Tetsuya Komuro, model/actress Elaiza Ikeda, C-channel president Akira Morikawa, and Tokyo Girls Collection executive producer Noriyoshi Murakami. What are the impacts of social networking? Have we evolved to live in this connected-yet-closed world? Or has it set us back? We're living in an entangled world. A world centered around girls. Invisible TOKYO.

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2. The Boundary Line of Individuality

Episode 2 features actress Airi Matsui, musician DAOKO, and composer Hitoshizuku P. Today, SNS has become part of their identity. How do they face the new values? Although they strive to be unique, they have no choice but to care what others think of them. They live in a blur between private life and public life. What do they pursue in the entertainment world? What is their destination?

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3. The Critical Point of an Idol

Episode 3 brings ex-AKB48 Minami Takahashi, Fairies' Mahiro Hayashida, Osare Company's Costume Creative Director Shinobu Kayano and Denpagumi.inc Originator Maiko Fukushima. Explore Japan's idol culture, an innovative and original form of expression. Impermanence and girlishness, both peculiar to the Japanese, unite to expand its venue of expression. The birth and end of an idol. Who’s the idol?

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4. Horizons of a Fashion Model

Episode 4 features model and actress Ayaka Miyoshi, model and talent Nicole Fujita, Popteen editor-in-chief Shigeho Mori, and fashion creative director Sayumi Gunji. A wide variety of models emerged in response to the diverse lifestyles of women. What is the true reality expressed through the clothes worn by the models? We expose the spirit behind their existence as the mirror of this era.

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5. The Spirituality of a Woman Novelist

Episode Five proceeds by welcoming Naoki Prize winning novelist, Yuka Murayama. What is the story she reveals today around the theme of woman-ness? What sets her to pursue the curse, love, pain, suffering and liberation of being a woman? We journey into the spirituality of Yuka Murayama's world. Guests: Kinari, Rena Takeda, Eri Tachibana, Nana, Ayaka Miyoshi and Kenshiro Iwai.

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6. Border Transgression

Episode 6 welcomes Tetsuya Komuro, Komuro-produced group Def Will (HINA, LETY, MONNA, REI), and Airi Matsui. We consider "border transgression" as the theme to examine the many borders of the transforming music entertainment industry and the artists' stream of consciousness. Explore the story of transgressors who cross over all boundary lines.

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7. Nostalgia

Episode 7 follows model and actress Airi Matsui to her hometown as she explores her origin. Past events are connected to the present, expanding a single world into endless possibilities. What is the reality behind Airi Matsui? We sense the existence of a mirror image and a parallel world as the inner depths of Invisible TOKYO's theme unfolds.

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8. Vanishing

A writer covers actresses who stand on the edge and on the verge of being swallowed up by the fictitiousness of the entertainment world. They cannot find a balanced identity. The writer sees this as the "vanishing" and continues to interview them about their disappearing self. What is beyond this entangled world? We examine the inner world of actresses who exist between reality and fiction.

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