Kosuke
Yamamoto has perhaps the most unusual
background of any Japanese indie director:
he started on a lighting crew, working
on such films as Nobuhiro Suwa's M/Other.
His debut feature is essentially a character
study: two strangers cross paths after
the funeral of a mutual friend, spend
a night talking together and then separate
again.
Their
fragile and transient bond is based on
shared incomprehension of their friend
Yu's suicide and the film touches on elusive,
unspoken feelings of mortality and loss.
Tony
Rayns