Two strangers, one dead friend, and a city that won't let them sleep.
After attending the funeral of Yu, a childhood friend, Toru gets drunk and misses the last train home. He saves a girl, Nao, after hearing her jump into the river, and finds that she was also a friend of Yu. Together, they wander the streets until morning.
Cinematography
Tokyo at night has never looked this beautifully exhausted.
Acting
Murakami and Akamatsu do more with silence than most do with monologues.
Director
Kosuke Yamamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kosuke Yamamoto made this as a student film at Tokyo University of the Arts. It played zero festivals and exists almost entirely through whispers and file-sharing.
The 'zangyo nakama' phenomenon—staying out all night with strangers rather than facing an empty apartment—mirrors Japan's hikikomori-adjacent urban isolation of the late 90s.
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