IN THE DISTANCE

HDATETETE

By Saki CATO

PFF - PIA FILM FESTIVAL - as SALES All rights, World / FEST

First film - Completed 2022

A series of entertaining episodes in the
lives of two female roommates sharing
an old house

    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama, Fantasy
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 78 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Saki CATO
    • Synopsis
    • Ako (Saki Cato) is an aspiring photographer and San (Haruka Toyoshima) is a part-time worker. They were sharing a house with a mutual friend, but are now stuck living together while their friend is away on a working holiday abroad. Ako is meticulous and stoic, while San is lazy and free-spirited. There is no way that their opposite lifestyles and personalities can exist in harmony with all the tensions that stand between them. One day a man from a real estate agency comes to their house. He says that the neighbors have complained about the noise from the accordion San plays.

      The film plays out in 4 acts. "Home," which begins with a visit from a man; "Cute Woman," in which San gets involved in a fight between a woman barricaded in her home and a man who is not very talkative; "Steam," in which a mysterious girl appears to Ako; and "Miscalculation, or Longing," in which two people who have argued go on strange journey together.