Four hectic days unfold as a family reunites after the death of the world’s most troublesome big brother.
Acting
Mitsushima and Shibasaki weaponize decades of sisterly tension.
Direction
Nakano turns a funeral into a four-day pressure cooker.
Writing
Adapts the novel's cruel specificity without softening blows.
Director
Ryota Nakano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nakano's previous film 'Her Love Boils Bathwater' similarly explored posthumous family reckonings, making this his unofficial 'grief trilogy' middle chapter.
The portable shrine's absurd size was Nakano's invention—the novel kept the brother full-sized, but the miniature coffin amplifies every indignity.
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