LEAVING THE SCENE

HIKINIGE

By Yutaka MIZUTANI

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 2018

Shuichi is marrying with a daughter of his company's vice president. He accidentally hits and kills a woman by car with his best friend sitting alongside. The downfall of their lives starts when they decide to run away. Shocked by the loss of his daughter, the victim's father searches for the truth.

    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Thriller
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 129 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yutaka MIZUTANI
    • Writer(s)
    • Yutaka MIZUTANI
    • Synopsis
    • An accident, a crime, and an endless aftermath

       A car accident in a small city. A woman loses her life, and it becomes a case of hit and run.
       Driving was Shuichi Munakata. Beside him in the passenger seat was his best friend, Teru Morita. The two were hurrying to a meeting over Munakata’s upcoming wedding to Sanae Shirakawa, whose father is Vice-President of a large construction firm. Grieving are the parents of the victim, Mitsuo Tokiyama and his wife Chizuko. On the case are the veteran detective Kozaburo Yanagi and his young colleague Shun Maeda. Caught up in an event that inevitably transforms a quiet, ordinary day into one that will complicate their lives and bring their emotions into bold relief.
       What is it that lies deep in their hearts? What has been born there?
       What awaits them on the other side of this tragedy?