

The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people living in Kobe.
Direction
Adachi's patient gaze lets grief breathe.
Cinematography
Kobe's harbor light becomes a character.
Acting
Tomita's stillness speaks entire histories.
Director
Mojiri Adachi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adachi cast actual 1995 earthquake survivors as extras, their real reactions bleeding into fiction.
Zainichi Korean third-generation identity remains underrepresented in Japanese cinema; this quietly centers it without explaining itself to outsiders.
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