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こんな事があった (There Was Such a Thing Before)

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こんな事があった (There Was Such a Thing Before)

  • 2025
  • Japan
  • Fiction
  • Japanese
  • 131 mins
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In this quiet, enigmatic drama, Matsui Yoshihiko reflects on the toll of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in the lives of its townspeople. Time has passed since Akira lost his mother. Now, he sets off to find his father who works to decontaminate the region. Time stands still in the silent streets of Fukushima. Radioactive residues continue to taint the lives of the citizens with a slow, invisible anxiety, trapping them between past wounds and future uncertainties. As his old home was highly exposed to radiation, leading to his mother’s death, young Akira grows up aimless and uprooted. In his search for his lost father, he is assisted by Yuji, the owner of a down-at-heels surfboard shop, as well as a concerned classmate, Shinichi, who becomes increasingly entangled in Akira’s story.

Credits

Director
Matsui Yoshihiko
Writer
Matsui Yoshihiko
Producer
Toru Emori, Matsui Yoshihiko

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