Oinaru Gakusei

A diminutive and original film set in the future, a hundred years away; without anything that resembles science fiction or special effects. There is indirect mention of highly-developed technology, because the protagonists are always being spied on by satellites. The far-from-ambitious Komori (played by the director himself) meets the very ambitious Ueda. The meeting between these two very different characters turns out to be instructive for both of them.The film is actually a criticism of present-day Japan via a projection into the future; the characters look back on a world that has gone for ever and reminisce about rituals which have disappeared since our time. One of the vanished rituals is protesting against the building of a new airport. In the open field, people throw stones without any target; they have forgotten the meaning of the protest.