HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY | 天国はまだ遠い | Tengoku wa mada tôi | 2016 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Yuzo (Nao Okabe) and Mitsuki (Anne Ogawa) live together in Yuzo’s small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from Satsuki (Hyunri), a documentarian resolved to make a film about a now-distant family tragedy, and the three meet, to search for some way to account for their relationship to one another, the memories they share and those they’ve kept to themselves.
“Heaven Is Still Far Away is a short piece originally made only for supporters of the crowdfunding of Happy Hour. Courtesy of them, we can now show it to the public – my first ghost story.” RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI