A Light in the Distance

A Light in the Distance — Plot

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.

• Release date
• April 1, 2015
• Runtime
• 53 min
• Director
• Keiko Tsuruoka

A Light in the Distance — Cast

Mariko Kobayashi Naoya Shimizu Kaori Takeshita

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Suzuna Kazunari Yanagitani

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Keisuke Yoshita Akaji Maro