(Sho Miyake, 2022, Japan, 99 minutes)

Keiko (Yukino Kishii, star of this year’s Cannes selection All the Lovers in the Night) is a semi-professional boxer who has been deaf since childhood. Her biggest supporter is the owner of her struggling Tokyo gym (Japanese character actor Tomokazu Miura, last seen on our screen as the patriarch in The Taste of Tea), but due to the pandemic and his advanced age, her greatest refuge is under threat of closure.

In Japanese with English subtitles.