2017 · sci-fi · thriller · japanese
Before We Vanish
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa2h 9m2017
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.
Our read: Before We Vanish (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller · japanese entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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