CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2021
Moonlight Shadow posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2021 1h 32m JPN

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Moonlight Shadow

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Moonlight Shadow — the trailer.

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

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Like Moonlight Shadow, it approaches bereavement through a quiet, uncanny encounter, using an unhurried journey and restrained emotion to make absence feel intimate rather than frightening.

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Its wintry visual lyricism and correspondence with the past echo Moonlight Shadow’s tender treatment of grief, memory, and the possibility of finding a gentler relationship with loss.

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Its grieving strangers move through dense natural spaces with minimal dialogue and tactile calm, offering the same meditative pacing and sensitivity to mourning as Moonlight Shadow.

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Why this pick

A formally spare, visually poetic meditation on a death and its lingering emotional traces; its stillness and supernatural premise serve longing and memory rather than shocks.

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Why this pick

Though more conversational and expansive, it shares Moonlight Shadow’s patient attention to unresolved mourning, solitary routines, and the fragile connections that let grief begin to change.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Satsuki lost her boyfriend, Hitoshi, in a car accident. Unable to face up to his death, she spends her days unable to sleep properly. At some point, Satsuki began to jog at dawn as part of her daily routine, and on a bridge she always passes, she meets a mysterious woman named Urara.

02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Nana Komatsu

Nana Komatsu

さつき

Hio Miyazawa

Hio Miyazawa

等

Himi Sato

Himi Sato

柊

Nana Nakahara

Nana Nakahara

ゆみこ

Aoi Yoshikura

Aoi Yoshikura

蛍

Seiya Nakano

Seiya Nakano

充

Asami Usuda

Asami Usuda

麗