Candies: Girlish Hardcore

From costume-play fetishism to Lolita complexes to obsessions with schoolgirls, a fanatic focus on women exists within Japanese culture, as women are objectified, dressed up and worshipped. The groundbreaking performance troupe YUBIWA Hotel journeys through the vivid wasteland of girlhood in Candies: Girlish Hardcore, lifting the sugary frills and lace to expose something erotic, grotesque and sometimes violent hidden underneath.