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Kei Chika-ura is known for Complicity (2018), The Lasting Persimmon (2015) and Great Absence (2023).
- Writer, Producer, Director
- Kei Chikaura
Aug 2, 2023 · Kei Chika-ura returns to the Festival with this smartly observed, beautifully shot story about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost...
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Great Absence, the latest by emerging Japanese filmmaker and TIFF alumnus Kei Chika-ura, is a touching journey through lost memories and scattered fragments of lives towards the reconciliation of a relationship between a father with dementia and his long-estranged son.
Sep 7, 2023 · "GREAT ABSENCE" is a Japanese film directed by Kei Chika-ura. Nominated for competition at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2023.
Sep 10, 2023 · Great Absence: Directed by Kei Chika-ura. With Mirai Moriyama, Tatsuya Fuji, Yôko Maki, Hideko Hara. Follows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.
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- Drama
- Kei Chika-ura
- 2023-09-10
Tatsuya Fuji stars as a retired professor who shows signs of rapidly progressive dementia. A deeply moving and artfully multi-layered feature about reconciliation, love and mortality by director Kei Chika-ura.
Oct 3, 2023 · Oct 3, 2023 10:46am PT. ‘Great Absence’ Review: A Son Discovers His Father in a Deft, Complex, Wrenching Dementia Drama. Kei Chika-ura's delicately devastating second feature excavates a life —...
