The Face of Jizo (2004)

Original title

父と暮せば

Directed by

Kazuo Kuroki

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in Hiroshima survives the atomic bombing but struggles to move forward. She tries to connect with a young man while still mourning her father who died in the blast.

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What happens

The Face of Jizo (Japanese: 父と暮せば, Hepburn: Chichi to Kuraseba) is a 2004 Japanese war drama film directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano. It is based on the play of the same name by Hisashi Inoue. It was the 3rd and final film of Kazuo Kuroki's War Requiem trilogy, following Tomorrow (1988) and A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002). The story follows a young woman, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and her attempts to forge a relationship with a young man while mourning the death of her father in the atomic bombing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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