Eroshenko

<p></p><p>Tokyo 1915</p><p>While WWI rages half a world away Tokyo is a hotbed of radical ideas as cosmopolitan intellectuals and activists from around the world cross paths in a rapidly modernizing city. Socialists and anarchists musicians and artists from Japan China Korea India and Russia all passionately advocate for a more just and equal world.</p><p></p><p>Blind Ukrainian Vasily Eroshenko is drawn to Tokyo in search of greater opportunities and respect for blind people. At a salon for radicals on the second floor of a bakery he meets the anarcho-feminists of <em>Bluestocking</em> magazine fearless women fighting for bodily autonomy and free love. </p><p></p><p>Kamichika Ichiko is a contributor to <em>Bluestocking</em> and the first woman reporter at the Tokyo <em>Daily News</em>. She is most at home among the Bluestockings who dress like men and engage in sister relationships. Yet she is drawn to Eroshenko and helps him publish his political fables.</p><p></p><p>As Eroshenko becomes a celebrated writer and public speaker he becomes more outspoken in advocating for socialism feminism and disability rights but the authorities will not long tolerate this disruptive foreigner. </p><p></p><p>Based on extraordinary heartbreaking true events <em>Eroshenko</em> is a wild fever dream of utopianism polyamory artistic creation jealousy and persecution unfurling against the backdrop of Japan's <em>belle époque</em> called Taish? Romanticism. When high and low East and West old and new intermingled these activists dreamed of a better world trying to stem the tide of growing fascism. </p><p></p>