Face To Face: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Face To Face Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Yodogawa Technique: Infusing Life Into Trash
Jan 27, 2019 · 28 min
Our guest is Yodogawa Technique, an artist who transforms trash and flotsam into stunning collages. He travels worldwide, interacting with local communities to create thought-provo
Masako Toyota: Turning Narrow Hilly Streets into an Asset
Feb 24, 2019 · 28 min
A declining birthrate and an exodus of young people to the cities has led to an increase in vacant homes, often abandoned in lieu of paying inheritance tax. Over 13% of the houses
Hiraku Ogura: Listening to the Voices of Microorganisms
Mar 31, 2019 · 28 min
Miso and other fermented foods are key to Japanese cuisine, a favorite of health-conscious foodies the world over. But increasing food diversity has led to a 40% decline in miso co
Yoko Tawada: The Fascination of Exophonic Literature
Apr 28, 2019 · 28 min
The 2018 US National Book Award for Translated Literature went to Yoko Tawada's "The Emissary," a phantasmagoric description of the dystopian world after the Great East Japan Earth
Yusuke Murakami: The Key to Living Harmoniously in Extreme Environments
May 26, 2019 · 28 min
Our guest, Yusuke Murakami, is a field architect who studies extreme living environments. He's spent over 1,000 days in the field, including the Himalayas and Antarctica. In 2017,
Kuniaki Kuroki: A Glass Magician
Jun 30, 2019 · 28 min
Kuniaki Kuroki is a world-renowned glassmaker with over 50 years of experience, whose works combine techniques from traditional Japanese ceramics and lacquering, and incorporate mo
Josh Grisdale: A Wheelchair User's Insight into Japanese Hospitality
Jul 28, 2019 · 28 min
Originally from Canada, Josh Grisdale has cerebral palsy, is quadriplegic and has used a wheelchair from a very early age. In 2015 he created an English website on accessible touri
Toshiyuki Inoko: Changing Perspectives with Digital Art
Sep 29, 2019 · 28 min
teamLab is a cutting-edge art collective led by Toshiyuki Inoko. One of its major exhibitions is set in a huge Japanese garden at the foot of Mt. Mifuneyama in Kyushu. Constantly c
Doshin Hiroki: Martial Arts, a New Way of Therapy
Oct 27, 2019 · 28 min
Judo, karate, and kendo are representative of Japan's martial arts or budo that has its origins in the way of the samurai. Doshin Hiroki used to be one of Japan's foremost budo mas
Miyako Ishiuchi: Documenting the Vestiges of Time
Nov 24, 2019 · 28 min
Miyako Ishiuchi is a world-famous photographer and laureate of the "Nobel Prize of photography," the Hasselblad Award. She chooses to focus on the personal effects of the deceased,