(Original title: 大いなる不在/ Ooinaru Fuzai)

GREAT ABSENCE

152 min / Release in Japan: 2024

Category Drama
DIRECTOR
Kei Chika-ura “COMPLICITY”
CAST
Mirai Moriyama “Shadow of Fire” “Rage” “Shin Kamen Rider”
Tatsuya Fuji “COMPLICITY” “In the Realm of the Senses”
Yoko Maki “After the Storm” ”Like Father, Like Son”
Hideko Hara “A Bride for Rip Van Winkle” “Shall We Dance?”
Film Festivals & Awards
2023 Toronto International Film Festival - Platform Section
71st San Sebastian Festival - Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance (Tatsuya Fuji), ATENEO GUIPUZCOANO Award
Duration/Release
152 min / Release in Japan: 2024

Synopsis

Distanced from his father Yohji for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call–Yohji has disconnected from reality due to dementia, and his second wife Naomi is missing. Asked where she is, the old man replies that she committed suicide. While trying to find out about the stepmother, Takashi traces the past of Yohji he has never been able to accept.

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