Domains

Overview

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 24, 2019

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Aichi Arts Center

Budget

$150,000

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt9643408