Hold Your Breath Like A Lover

[Machine Translation] And They Touch the Past and the Future - Kohei Igarashi, who co-directed "The Night I Swam Too Far" with Damien Manubel, shot this unique human drama while a graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts. The film depicts the secret feelings of men and women working at a huge waste treatment plant. -When they are silent and breathless, the story of someone else's life begins. Walking along the endless corridors, one person stands alone. People's words are small, and their bodies wander around like ghosts, having lost their will. Thinking of someone who is not here, waiting with bated breath for something that once existed or something that will come one day.... It was December 30, 2017, about two years before the Tokyo Olympics, when the Constitution was amended to create the National Defense Forces. A dog wanders into a waste treatment plant. Tani-chan (Ran Taniguchi), an office worker, looks for the dog but cannot find it. Ken ( Yusuke Inaba ), who has finished his night shift, is playing TV games with Gou ( Goichi Mine ), who is off duty that day. Mr. Adachi ( Tomomitsu Adachi ) does not want to go home, and Yana ( Koji Harada ) is working on decorations for the New Year. However, they all have the same problems. Pregnancy, infidelity, family, friends who died in the war. Tani is troubled by her affair with Mr. Adachi, but at some point she begins to feel that her father, the former factory manager ( Aluraki Pan ), who should already be dead, might be in this place.

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そして彼らは触れる 過去と未来に― 『泳ぎすぎた夜』でダミアン・マニュベル監督と共同監督を務めた五十嵐耕平監督が、東京藝術大学大学院在籍時に撮り上げた異色のヒューマンドラマ。巨大なゴミ処理工場で働く男女が密かに抱える想いを描き出す。 ―息を殺して沈黙した時、いつか誰かが生きた物語がはじまる― 無人で稼働する巨大な工場。果てしなく続く廊下を歩き一人ぽつんと佇む。人々の言葉は小さく、意思を失った身体はまるで幽霊のように彷徨う。かつてあったものや、いつか訪れるなにかを息を殺して待ちながら、ここにはいない誰かに思いを馳せること・・・。憲法改正を経て国防軍が創設され、東京オリンピックを約2年後に控えた2017年12月30日。ゴミ処理工場に一匹の犬が迷い込む。事務のタニちゃん(谷口蘭)は犬を探すが見つからない。夜勤を終えたケン(稲葉雄介)はこの日非番のゴウ(嶺豪一)とTVゲームをして遊んでいる。足立さん(足立智充)は帰ろうとせず、ヤナさん(原田浩二)は新年の飾り付けに勤しんでいる。しかし彼らは皆同じような問題を抱えていたのだった。妊娠、不倫、家族、戦争で死んだ友達。そんな中、足立さんとの不倫関係に思い悩むタニちゃんだったが、いつしか既に死んだはずの元工場長の父親(あらい汎)が、この場所にいるのではないかと感じ始める。

映像特典(約2分): 予告編