Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Acting
Egill Ólafsson's weathered face does more acting than most scripts.
Cinematography
London-to-Tokyo visual poetry that makes grief look gorgeous.
Writing
Olafur Johann Ólafsson's novel adapted with surgical precision.
Director
Baltasar Kormákur
Egill Ólafsson
Kristófer
Kōki
Miko (Young)
Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson
Kristófer (Young)
Masahiro Motoki
Takahashi
Yoko Narahashi
Miko
Ruth Sheen
Mrs. Ellis
Masatoshi Nakamura
Kutaragi
Meg Kubota
Hitomi
María Ellingsen
Ella
Benedikt Erlingsson
Dr. Stefánsson
Sigurður Ingvarsson
Jonas
Starkadur Petursson
Markús
Tatsuya Tagawa
Arai-San
Charles Nishikawa
Goto-San
Eiji Mihara
Dr. Kobayashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Baltasar Kormákur cast his own son Pálmi as young Kristófer — nepotism that actually works.
The pandemic framing wasn't in the original novel; Kormákur added it after shooting was delayed by COVID, making the film accidentally more urgent.
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