Thundergod is a narrative experimental film set in a make-believe mountain village isolated from the outside world by frequent lightning strikes.

One day, a young woman named Aoi appears in the village with dreams of dancing at an exclusive underground club open only to lightning strike survivors. Aoi wanders the village in a desperate daze, torn between life and death.

The villagers she meets are split between those who live in fear of lightning strikes, and others who look to lightning as a harbinger of good fortune.

The characters must navigate their conflicted relationship with nature, represented by a profusion of wild crabs symbolizing both danger and desire.

Filmed on location at a cabaret club and the mouth of an active volcano in Kumamoto, Japan, Thundergod blurs fiction and folklore to explore themes of resilience and acceptance.