A broken truck, a makeshift family, and the slowest goodbye you'll never forget.
High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a family and performs road shows out of their truck. A sense of loss, farewells, and relations are all brought out.
Acting
Kazuhiro Sano's weathered silences speak entire backstories.
Direction
Sanada lets scenes breathe until discomfort becomes beauty.
Director
Kôhei Sanada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kazuhiro Sano is also a prolific pink film director; this rare dramatic turn uses that same unflinching gaze for family dysfunction instead.
The title's repetition mirrors the engine's struggle—starting, stalling, starting again. The truck dies exactly when the characters finally stop running.
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