Japanese Film Festival 2023 (Shaw)
A MAN
Rating
PG13 Some Violence And Scene Of Int
Language
Japanese with English subtitles
Cast
TSUMABUKI Satoshi, ANDO Sakura, KUBOTA Masataka
Synopsis
Over four blissful years, Rie and her son shared a loving new life with her second husband, Daisuke. His sudden accidental death brings not only grief, but an unnerving discovery for the widow: the man she thought she knew was posing under someone else’s identity. In a startling dual narrative, the mystery around Mr. X unfolds beneath the hands of KIDO, the attorney handling the case. Prefaced by René Magritte’s surrealist painting Not to be Reproduced, this thought-provoking film is a vital addition to a growing genre of Japanese cinema that interrogates fragile morals permeating contemporary society.