When Yasaka walks into Toshio's home workshop after 11 years in prison, he asks his old friend for a job and a place to sleep. Toshio obliges but when Yasaka befriends Toshio's wife Akié and starts teaching their daughter Hotaru to play the harmonium, the family's fragile domestic bliss is forever altered.
Koji Fukada anatomizes the dismantlement of a traditional Japanese family in a precise and disturbing way. The film won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Festival.
Filmography: Sayônara (2015), Au revoir l’ete (2013), Hospitalité (2010), Human Comedy in Tokyo (2008).