Ai no Yokan

Masahiro Kobayashi

IndieLisboa 2008 •

Japan, Fiction, 2007, 102′

Nokiro teenage daughter has killed one of her classmates, Junichi’s daughter. A year later, in a small industrial town in the Hokkaido region, Junichi and Noriko see themselves everyday without speaking or exchanging looks. Prostrate with grief, they no longer feel anything. Suddenly he decides to buy her a present. Little details in their lives change. Their existence becomes stronger to each other, redeemed by the life they had given up. They regain a taste for life, overwhelmed by a love that transforms them despite themselves. Lyrical, raw and sensitive, this feature film highlights all the little details that constitute life and pays tribute to it.