A Light in the Distance (2015)
Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.
Director:
Keiko Tsuruoka
Writer:
Keiko Tsuruoka
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Mariko Kobayashi as |
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Naoya Shimizu as |
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Kaori Takeshita as |
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Suzuna as |
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Kazunari Yanagitani as |
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Keisuke Yoshita as |
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Akaji Maro as |
| Directing | Keiko Tsuruoka | Director |
| Writing | Keiko Tsuruoka | Screenplay |
| Production | Ikuka Kim | Producer |
| Directing | Shinsuke Kurimoto | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mari Kawakita | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Tsutomu Ogawa | Cinematography |
| Lighting | Gen Gen | Lighting Artist |
| Sound | Hiroki Nakano | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Masami Okada | Production Designer |
| Editing | Kaoruko Kondo | Editor |
| Editing | Keiko Tsuruoka | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maiko Naka | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Hiroki Nakano | Music |