Nihon no Higeki

[Machine Translation] About love on the other side of the wall--. This is the story of our family. The true story of a bizarre case in which she continued to live with her father's corpse and receive a pension! A shocking story inspired by an actual incident! This film is a story about the collapse of a family and the "abyss of an unattached society" that Japan is in through the story of a family's collapse. The film depicts the "abyss of an unrelated society" that Japan has fallen into through the collapse of a family. Tatsuya Nakadai, who worked with Masahiro Kobayashi on "Haru's Journey," plays an ordinary father with an overwhelming presence and a sense of melancholy, while Kazuki Kitamura, who plays his son, gives a passionate and emotional performance, creating an overwhelming clash of souls. --Fujio, who has been told that he has only three months to live, returns to his old home accompanied by his son Yoshio. It is the anniversary of the death of Fujio's wife, Yoshiko. The next day, Fujio locks himself in his room by nailing the door and window of his room. Unemployed and having run away from his wife and children, Fujio is relying on his father's pension to make ends meet. Confused by his father's sudden action, Fujio desperately tries to persuade his father to come out of his room through the door. Various scenes from the past come and go in Fujio's mind...

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壁の向こう側にある愛について――。これは、私たち家族の物語。父親の遺体と暮らし続け、年金をもらい続けた猟奇事件の真相! 実際の事件からインスパイアされた衝撃の物語! 4度のカンヌ国際映画祭正式出品を果たし、各国の映画祭で高い評価を受けている映画作家・小林政広が高齢者所在不明問題とそこから派生した「年金不正受給事件」を知り衝撃を受け、遺書を書くような気持ちで脚本を完成させた本作は、ある家族の崩壊をとおして日本が陥っている「無縁社会の深淵」を描いている。『春との旅』でも小林政広とタッグを組んだ仲代達矢が圧倒的な存在感で憂いをたたえた平凡な父親を演じ、その息子を演じる北村一輝の感情を剥き出しにした熱演とともに、見るものを圧倒する魂のぶつかり合いをくりひろげている。――三カ月の命だと宣告された不二男は、息子義男に付き添われ、古い自宅に帰ってくる。その日は不二男の妻、良子の命日だった。翌日、不二男は自室の扉や窓にクギを打ち自室に閉じこもってしまう。妻子にも逃げられ失業中の義男は、父の年金を頼りに生活をしていたが、父の突然の行動にとまどいながら、扉越しに部屋から出てくるよう必死な説得を続ける。不二男の脳裏には過去の様々な光景が浮かんでは消えていった・・・。

映像特典(予定): 予告編