Belonging
(とりつくしま)
Reincarnation gets an unlikely twist in this charming omnibus film
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Japan | Drama | 2024 | 90 minutes
In Japanese w/ English Subtitles
Director/Screenwriter: Kahori Higashi
Starring: Tsumugi Hashimoto, Yuto Kasuda, Maki Isonishi, Yoko Yasumi, Kyoko Koizumi
Film Source: Nikkatsu
SYNOPSIS:
If you can choose to return to your loved ones as an inanimate object after your death, what would you choose? Based on a novel by Naoko Higashi, this omnibus film presents the choices made in four different stories.
The question of what awaits us after death has always fascinated us. Writer-director Kahori Higashi offers an inventive twist to the age-old reincarnation mythos with this clever and moving omnibus film. With these four stories of “inanimate object reincarnation”, the film asks us to rethink the idea of “sentimental value” and what each object in our lives means to us.
Kahori Higashi, Director/Screenwriter
Higashi works as a graphic designer as well as a film director. She won the Grand Prix at the 9th Kiryu Film Festival for her film Sanako Yuwakashi, 29 Years Old (19), and also directed When Electricity Melts in the omnibus film Baum-channeru Film Festival (21). Her first feature film Melting Sounds (21) was selected for the 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival, the 22nd Nippon Connection (Germany), the 14th Seoul International Senior Film Festival (Korea), and the 6th JAPANNUAL (Austria).
Screening Date:
Saturday, March 22, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Doors open 30 minutes before screening.
Location:
AMC NEWCITY14
1500 N. Clybourn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60610
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