Distance (film)

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Distance
Directed by	Hirokazu Koreeda
Produced by	Masayuki Akieda
Written by	Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring	Arata Yusuke Iseya Susumu Terajima Yui Natsukawa
Cinematography	Yutaka Yamasaki
Editing by	Hirokazu Koreeda
Release date(s)	May 10, 2001 May 26, 2001
Running time	132 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
IMDb profile

Distance is a 2001 movie by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Asano Tadanobu, Iseya Yusuke, Terajima Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui.

[edit] Plot summary

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast, minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths. They meet a former member of the cult (Asano), who had trained for the water sabotage attack but defected at the last minute. He leads them to the cabin he's currently holed up in, where he and the deceased cult members had trained for the attack, and they pass the night reminiscing about those they'd known and lost, shown cinematically through improvised dialogues and flashbacks. Sakata, the aforementioned surviving cult and last to see most of the departed alive, and Atsushi (Arata) interrogate one another about Yûko (played by actress/model Ryo), Atsushi's sister, whom Sakata had asked to run away him the night before the attack.

[edit] Awards

This film was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

[edit] External links

• Distance at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Hirokazu Koreeda Lessons From a Calf (1991) • However (1991) • August Without Him (1994) • Maborosi (1995) • This World (1996) • Without Memory (1996) • After Life (1998) • Distance (2001) • Nobody Knows (2004) • Hana (2006) • Aruitemo aruitemo (2008)