distance

Director: hirokazu koreeda

Actor: arata iura,yûsuke iseya,susumu terajima,yui natsukawa

Data Published: Sat May 26 2001

Genres: Drama

Key Words: lake,urban setting,family relationships,victim,trail

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278413/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_(film)

Description: Distance is a movie starring Arata Iura, Yûsuke Iseya, and Susumu Terajima. 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 of those...

Plot: 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 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 with him the night before the attack.