A film about the disappearance of something that seemed as though it would always be there: the long-established Maruhachi Yatarazuke pickling company, a shop that bore a key role in the food culture of Yamagata. The Komian Club to which it was attached had supported the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1993, offering a venue for free social interaction. But in April of 2020, it was suddenly announced that the shop and restaurant were shutting down. As the curtain closed on 135 years of business, disappointment spread, along with questions. This film looks at the proprietor who made the painful decision to close the business and at the people who lent support to this space of interaction. It asks what the YIDFF, and what Yamagata itself, meant as experienced through the Komian Club, by filmmakers and audiences from Japan and abroad.

little-seen film.

Uptown man who just graduated from an overseas university and hates pickled fish must be involved with a rustic girl who grew up with pickled fish and simple life because his father marry her mother. She doesn't accept her mother because she left her father for a wealthy man and caused her father's death. They go in different ways because her mother loves to be in a luxury life.

Mami Fatale, formerly known as The Best Chef In The World, prefers to be on the sidelines these days. It seems that there is nothing that would drag her away from her cozy little cottage, not even the shady activities of Doctor Von Klops, the local fast food producer. However, when Von Klops steals Mami’s cookbook containing all her culinary secrets and after the Doctor’s suspicious concoctions bring a gluttonous giant, Beatle, into existence, the heroic chef is the only one who can rescue the city and her friends. Mami, along with her inseparable pets, set out on an exciting adventure in order to save the world, get the precious cookbook back, and regain self-confidence.

Dog spelled backwards is Satan.