A Voice From the Lantern © (2007)
Written and directed by Anton Zane

Based by on an original play Anton Zane, the lead character Mayuko, who much to her family's dismay, flees Japan to live in the United States. She longs for home after living in the demise of her unfulfilled dreams and resorting to working in a peep show parlor.

Mayuko telephones her family in Japan. She learns through her angry and traditionally minded father that her grandfather who she was very close to has recently died. Mayuko's father tells her to never come home. Mayuko devises a plan to conduct a Japanese festival ceremony and call on her grandfather's spirit to help guide her home.

She takes what she thinks are sleeping pills and tries to stay awake long enough to make contact with her grandfather in the afterworld. She is suddenly awakened by a customer named Galopin who believes he is the world's greatest pantomime.

Galopin and Mayuko's longing for what they can't have causes a very unusual bond and fondness helping Mayuko ultimately choose life over death.

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