Fisherman Taro ³⁺

Once upon a time, on a tiny island somewhere in Japan there lived a fisherman called Taro Urashima. One day, when he was walking along the coast, he saw a group of village children who were torturing a turtle. He saved her. A few days later when he was fishing as usual, the saved tortoise visited him and spoke to him, "My Sovereign, Princess Oto-hime, would like to thank you for saving my life. She asked me to take you to Dragon Palace." Taro did not tarry – he promptly sat on the turtle’s back and they plunged deep towards the bottom of the sea...

Like Taro we will also courageously set off along the meandering paths of apple parades in Iida, cute offices in Tokyo and delicious white coffee in Prague, on an exotic journey straight into the heart of Japanese puppet tradition. As the director said, "An unusually invigorating Maribor breeze is blowing through the branches of one of the world's most popular Japanese fairytales."