Distance

Distance (2001)

ディスタンス

On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

Date of release
2001-05-26
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (63)
Runtime
2h 12m
Genres
Drama
Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda

Casting

Interesting facts

Distance is a 2001 film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, starring Arata, Tadanobu Asano, Yūsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima, and Yui Natsukawa.

Production

Kore-eda was originally interested in the disciples of Aum Shinrikyo, which had committed the Tokyo subway sarin attack. He did not intend for the film to be a direct critique of these types of sects but rather that it would bring attention to everybody's civic responsibility to stopping such attacks and "how each individual is directly related to or is responsible for a criminal act".

There was a lot of improvisation when it came to shooting the film. Each of the main actors had information withheld about the other characters' backstory and were instead given the scenarios in which the characters would interact. The relationships between the characters were thus loosely built upon the actors' real world interactions.

Much of the film's rural shooting took place around Kiyosato, Yamanashi Prefecture and the forests of neighbouring Nagano Prefecture.

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