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Rain looks through a rain-streaked window at night.

Whale’sTales

A film by Yohtaro Abe

Rain enters cryogenic sleep hoping for a cure. Each awakening takes her further from the life she knew.

Science-fiction short · Japan · 12 min 10 sec

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Whale’s Tales is a director-led exploration of AI filmmaking, using new image-making tools to tell an intimate science-fiction story with human emotion at its center.

Rain looks ahead through the warm haze of an unfamiliar world.Len stands watch inside an abandoned building.

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Rain enters cryogenic sleep hoping for a cure. Each awakening takes her further from the life she knew.

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Yohtaro Abe

The filmmaker

Yohtaro Abe

Writer & Director

Yohtaro Abe is a Tokyo-based video director, working across narrative film, emerging technology, and industrial cinema.

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Film details

Science-fiction short · Japan · 12 min 10 sec

Written & directed by
Yohtaro Abe
Produced by
Binh Cong Nguyen
Production
Yo Ho Studio
Completed
August 2026

English-subtitled excerpt. For full-film language versions and screening materials, contact the studio.

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Whale’s Tales · 32 seconds · Original sound

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My name is Rain Holloway, 21 years old. But it seems like I'm the oldest person alive. I'm reaching out... to any of you still out there.

Go ahead, tell your story. Tell us from the very beginning.

It was 2033 when I met him. On Earth. What was then called Tokyo.
Rain stands on a balcony above a city at night.
01 / 05 — Night departure

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