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The Mourner

2015 · 138 min Drama
5.3 / 10 · TMDB

Shizuto Sakatsuki (Kengo Kora) is a mourner. He goes to scenes of accidents and mourns for the victims. Yukiyo Nagi (Yuriko Ishida), who killed her husband and served prison time, goes to the scene of the murder and meets Shizuto. She follows him from that time. Other people that exists in their lives are Shizuto’s mother Junko who is terminally ill with cancer and waits for Shizuto’s return, his younger sister Mishio who is pregnant by her now ex-boyfriend and a magazine reporter who chases after Shizuto. The movie examines life and death, love and hate and sin and forgiveness through these characters.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 悼む人
Year 2015
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Runtime 138 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.3/10 (6 votes)

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The film constructs a quiet, meditative drama, relying on minimalist visual poetry and restrained performances. It explores not the event, but its echo—the silence and emptiness left in the wake of loss, and the slow movement toward forgiveness.

What lingers after viewing is a contemplative, almost hypnotic space where questions of guilt, memory, and release resist easy answers, compelling a deep empathy for the most complex human pain. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi

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