The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
Direction
Kawase's patient, observational style—every frame breathes with loss.
Cinematography
Nara's humid streets and domestic spaces shot like memory itself.
Director
Naomi Kawase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kawase shot in her actual hometown of Nara, using real locations from her childhood. The Aso house? Her grandmother's.
The twin disappearance mirrors Kawase's own preoccupation with absent fathers and fractured families—her documentaries (Embracing, Katatsumori) obsessively return to this wound.
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