Seven Weeks (2014)

Original title

野のなななのか

Directed by

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 51m

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small northern Japanese town, residents cope with loss and find small moments of connection over the course of seven weeks. The film follows several townspeople as they go about their daily lives and face personal grief.

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What happens

Seven Weeks (Japanese: 野のなななのか, Hepburn: No no nanananoka) is a Japanese drama film, produced in 2014, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. The film stars Tōru Shinagawa, Takako Tokiwa, Tokie Hidari, Takehiro Murata, Yutaka Matsushige, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Saki Terashima and Hirona Yamazaki. The screenplay by Obayashi and Tadashi Naito was based on the story by Koji Hasegawa. The residents of the small northern town of Ashibetsu, where the film was set, helped fund the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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