Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One day, their mutual friend Eisuke returns from a long military operation and their reunification brings back both pleasant and painful memories.
Acting
Hasegawa's thousand-yard stare deserves awards.
Direction
Sakamoto lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Junji Sakamoto
Goro Inagaki
Hiroshi Takamura
Hiroki Hasegawa
Eisuke Okiyama
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Mitsuhiko Iwai
Chizuru Ikewaki
Hiroshi's wife
Takehiko Ono
Yoshiharu Otani
Renji Ishibashi
Tamio Iwai
Miyako Takeuchi
Mari Iwai
Rairu Sugita
Akira Takamura
Masayuki Shida
Ikeda
Aki Sugawara
Natsuki
Keisuke Horibe
Tsuyama
Chihiro Okamoto
Onda
Mayu Harada
Shirakawa
Motomi Makiguchi
Tōkichiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sakamoto specializes in 'buried rage' cinema—his entire filmography is men who forgot how to say what they feel.
Goro Inagaki was a J-pop idol in SMAP; casting him as a failed everyman was deliberate subversion of his polished image.
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