Arekara - The Life After

Arekara - The Life After

2013
16m
6.0

6.0/10

1 votes
Overview

In February 2012, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo that was half destroyed by the tsunami of March 11th, 2011, to meet the disaster victims who now live in temporary housing. I spent several days in the North, under the snow, listening to these people talk candidly about what they had lived through, telling their own stories without the media as an intermediary. Their testimonies were terrifying, harsh and sad, but at the same time touching, sincere and human. From the pictures and interviews that I collected, I decided to make a film, not to reflect how awful the events were, but to communicate the singular and even surreal nature of each person’s experience. My intention wasn’t so much to focus on this particular event in Japan, but rather to make these stories more universal as a way of paying tribute to all the victims of natural disasters throughout the world.

Status: Released

Language: JA

Production Information

Production Companies
Ecce Films
Production Countries
France Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Keywords

Quick Facts

Original Title Arekara - La Vie après
Release Date February 19, 2013
Status Released
Language JA

Cast

Kôichi Nakazato
Kôichi Nakazato

Shigetsugu Gotô
Shigetsugu Gotô

Sumiko Abe
Sumiko Abe

Yûji Ishimori
Yûji Ishimori

Hiroko Utsumi
Hiroko Utsumi

Key Crew

Momoko Seto
Director
Momoko Seto
Producer