Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda
Written by Yuji Sakamoto
Starring: Sakura Ando/Eita Nagayama/Koya Kurokawa / 柊 Yota Kiki/Akhihiro Kakuta
Genre: Drama
Production country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2023-05-17(Cannes Film Festival) / 2023-06-02(Japan)
Running time: 125 minutes
Synopsis of the monster
An ordinary apartment, living lost her husband woman early weave (Ando Sakura is acted the role of) and primary school son Mai Ye (Kurokawa want to be acted the role of). Gather few words, young old, seems to hide the infinite mind can not tell. And the recent period of time together a variety of abnormal actions, let early weaving heart have unease. From her son’s mouth, she learned that she was bullied by the poly teacher (Yongshan Yingtai is acted the role of), so get up the courage to go to school to ask for words.
The school’s attitude is ambiguous, and even has a biased cognition of her identity as a single mother. As the two sides become more and more close, Saori seems to slowly discover that there is a side of her son at school that she does not know. In the process, another boy, Iri Hoshikawa (柊 Yota Ki), is also drawn into the center of the vortex…
The film won the Best Screenplay Award in the Main competition of the 76th Cannes Film Festival.