Held in Frankfurt in early summer every year, Nippon Connection is the world's largest festival dedicated to Japanese cinema. This year's edition presented 100 films and welcomed 16,500 visitors. Among those films, we introduce 2 documentaries: TRACE OF BREATH directed by Haruka Komori and the winner of the Jury Award, as well as Sayaka Ono's LOVE AND WOLBACHIA, offering a look into the lives of sexual minorities in Japan. Finally, for our Feature Selection, we present The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, a period drama set 100 years ago about a group of female sumo wrestlers.