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The Ice Ruts

2016 · 109 min TV Movie Drama
7.0 / 10 · TMDB

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 氷の轍
Year 2016
Country Japan
Genre TV Movie, Drama
Director Tomoyuki Takimoto
Runtime 109 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.0/10 (1 votes)

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The director constructs a narrative that relies on the stark contrast between the frozen landscapes of Aomori and the protagonist's gradually thawing resolve. The script works with meticulous detail, where each clue is a piece of a puzzle connecting personal loss to a regional tragedy spanning decades.

What lingers after the credits roll is a profound, melancholic stillness—the quiet aftermath of uncovering truths buried as deep as the ice. It’s a procedural where the real mystery lies in human memory and the weight of silence. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto

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Alone, on a quiet evening, immersed in its chilling, deliberate pace.

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