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J005311

By Hiroki KONO

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

Drama - Completed 2022

A troubled young salaryman offers a
purse snatcher a bag of money to
drive him out to the area of Mt. Fuji.
The road trip turns into a soulsearching odyssey.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, First film
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Hiroki KONO
- Cast
- Kazuaki NOMURA
- Synopsis
- A Salaryman Kanzaki wakes up for his
  daily routine but it’s evident that
  something is very wrong. He wanders out
  into the streets, being refused a taxi ride
  for reasons unknown. When he witnesses
  a young purse snatcher named
  Yamamoto pull a job, he tracks him down
  and inexplicably offers a million yen to
  drive him out of Tokyo to “meet a friend.”
  Yamamoto reacts violently to Kanzaki’s
  odd request and behavior but comes
  around when he confirms the cash payoff
  is real. At a highway rest stop, Kanzaki
  tests the feeling of a noose around his
  neck – it’s now clear what his mission is.
  At one point Yamamoto abandons
  Kanzaki yet returns to honor the job.
  Kanzaki ultimately reaches the famous
  “sea of trees,” but will Yamamoto allow
  him to go through with it?