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PASSAGE OF LIFE

BOKUNO KAERU BASHO

By Akio FUJIMOTO

E.X.N K.K. - as PROD

Children's - Completed 2017

A based-on-a-true-story family drama. Burmese Family of four living in Japan gets separated between Japan and Myanmar. In Yangon, elder son Kaung raised in Japan faces his identity to be Burmese.

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival 2017
Asian Future , Best Asian Future Film Award & The Spirit of Asia Award by the Japan Foundation Asia Center
CinemAsia 2018
Best Performance Award
Bangkok Asean Film Festival 2018
Special Jury Award
Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2018
Gebar Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Children's, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, MYANMAR
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE, BURMESE
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Akio FUJIMOTO
    • Producer(s)
    • Kazutaka WATANABE (E.X.N K.K.)
    • Synopsis
    • Issace(the Father) and Khine(the Mother) left Myanmar and now live in Tokyo, Japan, with their two children, 7 year-old Kaung and 4 year-old Htet, who believe they are Japanese. Issac repeatedly tries to obtain refugee status, and spends many hours working through the process, but never succeeds. Issac had to work at the Japanese Restaurant, and Khine illegally. Out of insecurity, Khine, continuously quarrels with Issac. After Khine develops depression and becomes hospitalized, Issac decides to send Khine and his children back to Myanmar to live separately. The children have no choice but to follow his decision and face the great changes awaiting them in Myanmar. I
      n Yangon, while Khine recovers, Kaung’s stress grows stronger and stronger. He never liked learning Burmese. He can’t accept his new home and feels lonely being far away from his father and his friends. In the peak of his stress, he leaves the house with his back pack and toy gun in hand. He gets nowhere after wandering around, asking the way to airport. It begins to rain and the sun begins to set. He meets two boys, Adam and John, who talk to him in Japanese. They play in the middle of town. Eventually, Adam tells Kaung it’s time to go back home. At the house, he finds his mother and relatives looking for him. His mother cries and tells him never to run off again.
      A while later, Kaung and Htet are accepted into the Japanese school system in Yangon. Kaung seems to have recovered his sense of security, but Htet never stops crying and asking for Dad.
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