Raise Your Arms and Twist! Documentary of NMB48

(2016)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2016

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 舩橋淳

Cast: 山本彩, Fuuko Yagura, 沖田彩華, 白間美瑠

Plot

Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48, the Osaka-based NMB48 has become a musical force itself. With a string of No.1 hit singles and albums, not to mention sell-out performances, NMB48 continues Japan’s pop-music phenomena. Director Funahashi Atsushi, whose documentary work has previously chronicled such harrowing events as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, pulls back the curtain on the life and struggles of the band members and the workings of the idol-making industry.