ITAI ASU HE NO TOOKAKAN

[Machine Translation] They did not even have time to grieve, a sign of life that the media failed to convey. This film depicts the truth that the media failed to tell amidst the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Set in the gymnasium of an abandoned junior high school in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, the film depicts the people and their families who did everything they could to reunite the bodies with their families as soon as possible while preserving their dignity. An official selection of the World Grates section of the Montreal World Film Festival. -On March 11, 2011, a tsunami triggered by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history hit the city of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture. As the chaos continued overnight, the city decided to use the gymnasium of the former Kamaishi Daini Junior High School, which had been closed down, as a morgue for the bodies of the dead. The police and city officials could not hide their bewilderment as bodies were brought in one after another. In the cold gymnasium with no heating, Michio Shimoizumi (Koichi Sato), a doctor, Akira Masaki (Toshiro Yanagiba), a dentist, and their colleagues are assigned to identify the bodies...

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彼らには、悲しむ時間さえ無かった、これは報道が伝えきれなかった生命の証。2011年3月11日。日本を襲った未曾有の大震災の中で、報道では伝えきれなかった真実を描く映画。岩手県・釜石市にある廃校となった中学校の体育館を舞台に、遺体の尊厳を守りながらも一刻も早く家族と再会させる為に尽くした人々と家族を描く。モントリオール世界映画祭ワールドグレーツ部門正式招待作品。――2011年3月11日、日本の観測史上最大の地震により発生した津波が岩手県釜石市を襲った。一夜明けても混乱状態が続く中、市では廃校となった旧釜石第二中学校の体育館が遺体安置所として使われることになった。次から次へと運ばれてくる遺体に、警察関係者や市の職員も戸惑いを隠せない。暖房もなく冷え切った体育館の中で、医師の下泉道夫(佐藤浩市)や歯科医師の正木明(柳葉敏郎)たちが遺体の身元確認作業にあたることになった・・・。