Shot in a meticulous yet unmannered style, the film provides the veteran cast with an ideal framework to mount masterful performances.

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  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Koji Fukada
  • Japan, France 2016
  • 118 minutes
  • Japanese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

When Yasaka walks into Toshio's home workshop after 11 years in prison, he asks his old friend for a job and a place to sleep. Toshio obliges but when Yasaka befriends Toshio's wife Akié and starts teaching their daughter Hotaru to play the harmonium, the family's fragile domestic bliss is forever altered.
Koji Fukada anatomizes the dismantlement of a traditional Japanese family in a precise and disturbing way. The film won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Festival.
Filmography: Sayônara (2015), Au revoir l’ete (2013), Hospitalité (2010), Human Comedy in Tokyo (2008).


  • Director Koji Fukada
  • Production Masa Sawada, Hiroshi Niimura
  • Script Koji Fukada
  • Cinematography Kenichi Negishi
  • Editing Koji Fukada
  • Music Hiroyuki Onogawa
  • Festivals Cannes (Un Certain Regard-Jury Prize), Toronto
  • Actors Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Kanji Furutachi
  • Source MK2, Paris

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