Raise Your Arms and Twist Documentary of NMB48

Launched in 2011 as a sister group to girl band behemoth AKB48 the Osakabased NMB48 has become a musical force itself With a string of No1 hit singles and albums not to mention sellout performances NMB48 continues Japans popmusic phenomena Director Funahashi Atsushi whose documentary work has previously chronicled such harrowing events as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown pulls back the curtain on the life and struggles of the band members and the workings of the idolmaking industry