Midnight Bus

Masao Takeshita
Part of

New York Asian Film Festival 2018

June 29 - July 15, 2018

Based on an award-winning novel, this deceptively quiet tale eloquently details a broken family coming to terms with the quotidian yet often suffocating travails of blood relations, love, and life itself.

DIRECTOR
Masao Takeshita
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
Japan
RUNTIME
157 minutes
LANGUAGE
Japanese with English subtitles

Director Masao Takeshita will be in attendance

Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears. At the same time, their son inexplicably quits his job in Tokyo and returns home, and their soon-to-be-engaged daughter espouses defiant resentment at her mother for leaving them in the first place. Based on an award-winning novel, this deceptively quiet tale eloquently details a broken family coming to terms with the quotidian yet often suffocating travails of blood relations, love, and life itself. North American Premiere

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