FILM LIST
2022/1/27
After the sunset 夕陽のあと
| Sat 5 Mar 3:30pm |  |
| 2019 l 133min Censor rating:M (Suitable for Mature Audiences 16 Years and over) |
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Set in the small town of Nagashima, Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan. Yuichi Hino farms yellowtail fish, a family business, for his livelihood. He lives with his wife Satsuki, his mother Mie and a 7-year-old son Towa. But Towa is not their own son. He came to live with them when he was one-years old as a foster child, and now Yuichi and Satsuki want to formally adopt him.
They meet Yoshida at the child consultation center as they embark on the special adoption procedures with the Family Court, and find out how Towa was taken into care. They are shocked when they learn the name of Towa’s biological mother: Akane Sato, exactly the same as that of the woman who came to the island a few years ago and has since been working at the diner.
The tensions between foster parents and biological mother, the presence of residents on the island and the children growing up there are depicted in a human drama.
©Nagashima Tairiku Film Executive Committee
They meet Yoshida at the child consultation center as they embark on the special adoption procedures with the Family Court, and find out how Towa was taken into care. They are shocked when they learn the name of Towa’s biological mother: Akane Sato, exactly the same as that of the woman who came to the island a few years ago and has since been working at the diner.
The tensions between foster parents and biological mother, the presence of residents on the island and the children growing up there are depicted in a human drama.
©Nagashima Tairiku Film Executive Committee
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Director | Michio Koshikawa |
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Cast | Shihori Kanjiya, Maho Yamada, Masaru Nagai |