Script : Kôji Fukada
Editing : Syvie Lager, Kôji Fukada
Photographer : Yamamoto Hideo
Sound : Kagara Manabu, Nicolas Moreau, Romain Cadilhac
Actors : Kimura Fumino, Yamazaki Hirona, Sunadar Atom, Taguchi Tomorô, Kanno Mizuku, Nagayama Kento
Production : Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Chipangu, Comme des cinémas
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Year : 2022
Screening : 2023
DCP, Color, 123 mn, OV japanese SUBFR
Selected in 2022 Venice Festival
Taeko, her husband Jiro and her son Keita live a peaceful life. They live across from the apartment of Jiro’s parents, who had never really accepted that marriage and wish they were grand-parents. Keita is an endearing little boy, passionate about the Othello game. His accidental death at a birthday party is a tragedy for everyone. Keita’s longlost biological father, deaf and homeless, comes back to their life. Taeko, finding out about an ex-fiancé of her husband’s, gets close to her ex-husband again and helps him, putting her new relationship in danger. In this family drama told in the bittersweet touch characteristic of his work, Kôji Fukada, to whom the FICA paid tribute in 2022, is exploring the topics of loss and loneliness through the portrait of a woman looking for a new meaning to her life. “To me, people are and will stay alone, no matter the family, the religion or the community that surround them”. Kôji Fukada.
