Tomoichiro Setsuda started working as a director after winning the 2014 Adfest award. He works mainly on TV commercials and movies in both Tokyo and Sapporo. He often works on dramas that depict the subtleties of human emotions. “Deep Bones” is the third of his shorts we deal with in Asian Movie Pulse, after “My Wings Became My Legs” and “Necessary and Unnecessary”.

Deep Bones is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia

The film begins with a schoolgirl lying in the school pool as if dead, before the next cut brings us in the office of the teacher, Mariko, where the girl is with a towel around her, probably after getting a scolding. The teacher goes out for a minute to yell to another teacher, Kobayashi, to stop boiling whatever it is he is boiling in the schoolyard close to her office. It turns out, though, that he is...