Mana Kotani was friends with Sumire Utsuki for years. She admired Sumire's freewheeling ways and mysterious charm, but Sumire broke off connections with her. Later, Mana hears of Sumire's death, which she cannot get over.
Directly dealing with the effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, One Day You Will Reach the Sea is a powerful and well-acted film about the loss in a young woman's life, and the realization of how important a past friendship really was. The director Ryutaro Nakagawa (Mio on the Shore), who himself lost a close friend shortly after the disaster and wanted to explore questions he himself pondered afterwards, avoids all the melodrama clichés and crafts a convincing story of broken bonds with believable actresses in the lead. Well filmed and told with a respectful tempo, it's clear early on that you're watching something worth savoring.
Genre: Drama. 2h 6min.
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