Raise Your Arms and Twist! Documentary of NMB48

Launched in 2011 as AKB48's sister group, the Osaka-based NMB48 has grown into a formidable force in Japanese pop. With a string of No.1 singles and albums and sell-out performances, NMB48 remains a defining chapter of Japan’s pop-music phenomenon. Director Funahashi Atsushi, whose documentary work has previously chronicled harrowing events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, peels back the curtain on the lives and struggles of the group’s members and the machinery behind the idol-making industry.