Her childhood abuser walks into her bar. She pours him a drink.
When Maki was 12 years old, her mother Toshie had a relationship with a man, Kenji Hashimoto. But Hashimoto's twisted desire made him extend his magic claws to his daughter Maki. Although Junjiang vowed to protect Maki to the death, he was unable to return to heaven, and thus ended his life. After growing up, Maki, after breaking up with the domestic violence ex-husband Shinozaki Satoru, she started to run a snack bar, sealed the past, and lived alone. Unexpectedly, one day, Hashimoto suddenly came to the snack bar as a guest...
Acting
Shou Nishino's simmering restraint in silence
Direction
Kitazawa's refusal to look away from ugliness
Director
Yukio Kitazawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 2010s wave of 'pink' cinema confronting real trauma, not exploitation—director Kitazawa was a documentarian first.
The snack bar setting mirrors countless Japanese films, but here it's a trap Maki built for herself—her sanctuary becomes her arena.
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