"Robinson's Garden is a visual poem about the invincibility of plants in that most inhospitable of settings, the modern super-metropolis. The city is Tokyo, where a bored and rebellious young woman leaves behind her hedonistic companions and moves into an abandoned building with an overgrown garden. She proceeds to create her own world, growing cabbages, painting walls, and watching the stars at night. But there are continuing hints that, despite the woman's attempt to create a hermetically sealed universe, the green world is waiting to break in. Amos Vogel writes, 'Director Yamamoto's prodigious visual imagination has created a series of sumptuously poetic images in a magical tale of self-discovery. The unpredictability of Robinson's Garden is a precise index of its originality.' Add to this originality, a young Japanese filmmaker who disavows any interest in the calm and orderly Japan of the tourist brochures. One possible indication of this sensibility is his use of cameraman, Tom Docillo, and lighting designer, Jim Heyman from Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise." -Walter V. Addiego