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- Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also accidentally comes into possession of a cylinder containing George W. Bush's finger, whose fingerprint is designed to launch a nuclear missile, and international spies are soon chasing her.
- Miss Wonton begins with the arrival of a young Chinese immigrant, Ah Na (Amy Ting), to her new place of work, the Buddha's Happiness in New York. At Buddha's Happiness, she meets other immigrant workersand hears their idiosyncratic dreams of the future.
- A woman, neither young nor beautiful, dreams of a life of affirmation and social fulfillment, but instead finds herself listlessly passing her days with an ambition-less waiter. Covertly confined to a room of a world-hotel, she schemes to enter the History books by staging an act worthy of immortality.
- Robert Wilson pays homage to Japanese dancer and choreographer, Suzushi Hanayagi (1928- ). He mixes archival footage of her performances in the late 1980s and the 1990s, contemporary recitals by six dancers reprising her work, and his narration of losing contact with her and finding her, with Alzheimer's disease, in an Osaka care center. Photographs of her hands and head provide a backdrop to the contemporary staging. Her words, writ large across the screen, also give texture to Wilson's retrospective appreciation.
- A portrait of Suzushi Hanayagi, a dancer and choreographer who bridged the worlds of traditional Japanese dance and modern performance with a unique, bold style. Told from the perspective of her declining years, living with Alzheimer's and great physical deterioration, Hanayagi comes to life in a reconnection with longtime collaborator Robert Wilson. He in turn makes tribute to his 'teacher' by re-creating her work on stage, extending her already profound influence. Watching the creation of this new dance piece, we experience a liberation from her physical state; the renewal of her work as it moves from her experience on to a new generation.