An Elephant Sitting Still

[Machine Translation] Let's go see the end of the world together. The future will surely change. The world is going crazy! Rave reviews! The debut and posthumous work of a young talent who took his life at the age of 29. 234 minutes of his soul, which made the world go wild. The fates of four lonely people with nowhere to go and nowhere to grieve intersect in this story of one day from rock bottom to hope. --There is an elephant in a zoo in Manzhouli. The elephant just sits there all day long... A small rural town in China, where the coal mining industry has been abandoned with the passage of time. A young boy, Bu, defends his friend and accidentally pushes a delinquent classmate down the stairs. The delinquent's older brother is Cheng, a prominent figure in the town. Chased by Cheng and his friends, Boo tries to leave the town and gets his friend Ling and an elderly neighbor Jin involved. Cheng, who feels remorse for driving his best friend to suicide, Lin, who has no place at home and finds solace by having a relationship with a teacher, and Jin, who refuses to go to a nursing home despite being mistreated by his daughter and her husband. Each of them has their own problems, but they all have a little hope in the existence of a strange elephant that sits all day long in Manzhouli, 2,300 kilometers away from home.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: bonus video footage

世界の果てを一緒に見に行こう きっと未来は変わる。世界が熱狂!! 絶賛!! 29歳で命を絶った若き才能、デビュー作にして遺作。世界を熱狂させた、魂の234分。行き場のない悲しみを抱えた孤独な"4人の運命"が交差する―― どん底から希望を目指すある1日の物語。――満州里の動物園に一頭の象がいる。その象は、一日中ただ座っているという―― 時代の流れとともに炭鉱業が廃れた中国の小さな田舎町。少年ブーは友達をかばい、不良の同級生をあやまって階段から突き落としてしまう。不良の兄は町で幅を利かせているチェンだった。チェン達に追われ町を出ようとするブーは、友達のリン、近所の老人ジンをも巻き込んでいく。親友を自殺に追い込んでしまい自責の念のかられているチェン、家に居場所がなく教師と関係を持つことで拠り所をみつけるリン、娘夫婦に邪険にされながらも老人ホーム行きを拒むジン。それぞれに事情を抱えながらも、遠く2300km先の果て満州里にいる、一日中ただ座り続けているという奇妙な象の存在にわずかな希望を抱き4人は歩き出す――。

特典映像(約18分): フー・ボー監督短編 『Man in the well』(16分)、日本版予告編(約2分)