Breakfast, porch chats, and something quietly breaking beneath it all.
An old woman in the countryside begins another ordinary day. Breakfast with a young town official on a small table, chatter with a delivery man on the porch. However, she begins to feel a faint discord somewhere in her usual days.
Direction
Morisaki's restraint lets dread bloom in empty frames.
Acting
Nakao's face holds entire histories without dialogue.
Cinematography
Rural beauty that starts idyllic, turns deeply wrong.
Director
Win Morisaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released near Fukushima's 13th anniversary, SEN joins a wave of Japanese cinema processing invisible, ongoing disasters through mundane surfaces.
The title 'Sen' (銭/千) evokes both 'money' and 'thousand'—the thousand-yen note's figure, Fukuzawa Yukichi, advocated Westernization; the film quietly interrogates what that progress cost.
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