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Director: IIZUKA Ken
2020, 118 minutes, OmeU, DCP

This family drama is based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Shigematsu Kiyoshi and tells the story of a single father over a period of ten years.
Ken'ichi lost his wife a year ago and now lives alone with his two-year-old daughter Miki. Compared to many mothers who raise their children alone in Japan, Ken'ichi is quite well off financially and has even been able to move to a department in his company where a reduction in hours is possible. Nevertheless, he is often on the verge of exhaustion, which his parents-in-law are also aware of. They advise him to remarry, but Ken'ichi is aware of his daughter's feelings and decides to face the various professional and personal challenges alone.

Movie series
It's better together!
New Japanese films

Nowadays, there are many forms of loneliness and being alone.

Some people deliberately withdraw from life in the community, others are suddenly alone due to external circumstances such as separation or bereavement and have to reorient themselves.

The series of eight films made between 2019 and 2022 approaches the topic from different perspectives that are not only thought-provoking but also entertaining. The series kicks off with a quirky science fiction comedy in which a young woman struggles with her hated father, whose body has just died for a short time, followed by a sensitive family drama about a single widower. In a cooking film, the seasons determine the emotional life of a single senior citizen and a visually stunning anime tells the adventure-fantasy story of a girl who is neglected by her mother. In another anime, an art student encounters heroes and demons in her deceased grandmother's house and in a refreshing feature film, a couple of friends who have problems at school realize a shared dream. The gloomy vision of an ageing society strikes a serious note. The series is rounded off with a literary adaptation about a lonely older woman who experiences a special kind of cheering up.

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