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General Audience

GHOST IN THE SHELL: THE MOVIEVIRTUAL REALITY DIVER

Japan, 2025. Technology has been advancing more and more rapidly.

"Brain cyberization" that makes possible direct connections to information networks via the brain, the technology of "prosthetic bodies" that allows humans to change their body parts into cybernetical ones; in this world where such scientific advances have become common, a bombing attack threat is sent to the Japanese government.

Genre: Character / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 15min
© Shirow Masamune・Production I.G/KODANSHA・GHOST IN THE SHELL: THE MOVIE.COMMITTEE

Children

BONOBONOFriend from another planet

BONO BONO, a Japanese popular comic since 1986, is coming to the dome screen!
Bonobono, a young sea otter, and his friends move across the planetarium dome screen freely.
With completely new story, they go on a great adventure into space!

Genre: Character / Audience: Children / Duration: Approx. 22min
© MIKIO IGARASHI/TAKE SHOBO,BONOBONO PLANET

General Audience

The Man from the 9 Dimensions

“The Man from the 9 Dimensions” is a 3D fulldome film on the “Theory of Everything”, the ultimate goal of physics to describe all natural phenomena by a single consistent theory. Be ready to be surprised by the new world of vibrating strings and hidden dimensions predicted by the most promising hypothesis for the “Theory of Everything”, the Superstring Theory. Directed by Takashi Shimizu of “The Grudge”, the movie seamlessly fuses live action scenes, mesmerizing CG, and latest techniques of scientific data visualization and guides you through the esoteric world of theoretical physics in a way never before seen.

Genre: Science / Audience: General Audience / Duration: 30 min
https://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/sp/9dimensions/en/
©Miraikan

General Audience

KAGAYA’s AURORA

Curtain waves, light swirls, and then breaks up.
Different aurora captured by time-lapse is recreated in dome.
Using Computer Graphics, explain mechanism of how aurora is generated.
Glacier shot from high level, image of arctic and row of mountains.
This is a production that lets you fully enjoy the attractiveness of aurora
along with the nature of Ireland and Alaska.

Genre: Nature / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 26min
http://www.kagayastudio.com/aurora/
©KAGAYA Studio

General Audience

Earth Symphony

How wonderful our planet Earth is!
Aurora, meteorite, snow, clouds and more.
Let's feel the Earth's atmosphere with beautiful phenomenon displayed on the dome screen.
KAGAYA creating a masterpiece in his renowned computer graphics takes you to a healing journey about the story of the sky.
Enjoy a ride with soothing music and starry sky.
Please enjoy seasonal starry sky with dynamic music.

Genre: Nature / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 27min
http://www.kagayastudio.com/symphony/
©KAGAYA Studio

Children Family

Makuma’s Space Adventure

Constellation is essential topic of the planetarium program. This show contains fulldome digital movie with pre-recorded sky talk in 4 different seasons. The show is hosted by Makuma, the stop motion animation character, who travels through the mysterious universe.

Genre: Astoronomy / Audience: Children, Family / Duration: Approx. 15min / each season
© NHK/dwarf

Children

The Little Prince and The Star of Wish

Long, long ago, a prince lives in a mysterious castle.
He wants to catch a shooting star because he really wants his wish come true.
He waits and waits for many nights by looking up at the sky, and finally the night sky filled with shooting stars comes. Can he make his wish come true?

Genre: Tale / Audience: Children / Duration: Approx. 15min
©SORA

General Audience

Flower Universe

Makoto Azuma is the flower artist, who launched the experimental botanical lab Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyusho (AMKK).
He has been focusing on his project arranging flowers in all kinds of mundane situations that don’t occur in the realm of nature,
and continues to pursue the beauty of plants from a unique point of view.
This show lets us experience his world with powerful fulldome movie.
Brightly colored flower planet is taken by high-resolution 4K camera, emerges in the outer space filled in the dome.
It is an experimental show as if traveling back and forth between flowers and universe as well as micro and macro world.

Genre: Art / Music / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 10min
©NHK Enterprises/P.I.C.S

General Audience

LIFE FORCESecret Life in The Red Namib

The Namib Deserts of southwestern Africa is totally different world, awaiting you as if you land on an alien planet. Why on such a dry land are these creatures able to survive and sometimes thrive as dominant specie on the desert? This time, we captured some of the unanswered questions of the Fairy Circles for the first time in the world.
In addition, we successfully clarified the whole picture of the fog/mist in the Namib. From land to the sky, a mysterious world is revealed.

Genre: Nature / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 30min
©2015NHK and NHNZ and CCTV9

General Audience

A PLANET FOR GOLDILOCKS

The search for a planet like Earth – one with temperatures, oceans, and an atmosphere suitable for life has been a little like Goldilocks’ search for a decent bowl of porridge: some are too hot, some are too cold, but some are “just right.”

Learn the techniques astronomers have already used to find more than 2,000 tiny, dark worlds in orbit around distant stars – some in the Goldilocks Zone.

As we add exploration tools like the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, we will undoubtedly find thousands more!

Genre: Astoronomy, Science / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 26min
https://domenavi.com/showcontents/goldilocks/english/
©GOTO INC