Okurimono

Okurimono (2024)

After a 20-year absence, Noriko returns to Nagasaki to clear out her mother’s home. In doing so, she finds letters that reveal a family secret intertwined with the memory of the peninsular town’s inhabitants. In reconstructing this family story, Okurimono gradually develops into a grace-filled meditation on the passage of time and the legacy we leave behind.

Date of release
2024-04-16
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Laurence Lévesque

Casting

Interesting facts

Okurimono is a 2024 Canadian documentary film directed and written by Laurence Lévesque. The film centres on Noriko, a Japanese Canadian woman returning home to Japan to after her mother's death, where she seeks to find a greater understanding of her mother's experience as a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945.

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