Tokyo-based video filmmaker Karl-Heinz Neubert offers us in this tape his view of modem Japanese society as it undergoes a process of radical change. In the form of an episodic film, strongly oriented towards the classical Japanese chain poem (renku or hankasen), Neubert describes bizarre circumstances, constructs sad-funny scenarios and metaphorically coded visual sequences. The fact that viewers may find it impossible to understand some details of the him adds to, rather than detracts from, the charm of a story fascinatingly told Neubert spent two years making the video under the difficult production conditions which are standard in Japan: no location permission was granted for the exterior shoots, financial assistance was never a realistic possibility. All this makes "The Turns of the Wheel" a rare example of an Independent production by a Westerner in Japan.