After the Storm

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths. Ryota Tsuboi is a producer for a CM production company.

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His wife Sae is a food stylist. She is also enthusiastic about her daughter Moe's education and her work. Ryota goes to Nagano to see his father. There he has a strange meeting.

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota Hiroshi Abe wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother Kirin Kiki and beautiful ex-wife Yoko Make seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son Taiyo Yoshizawa - until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again.

Most films these days do not have something to 'say' anymore.

They don't have a deeper meaning. And if they do, it's mostly superficial or so complex you don't really understand. You will be dumbstruck by it's beauty. The story deals with Ryota, struggling with financial problems, and trying to keep contact with his son after divorcement.

He works as a private detective, spying on affairs and looking for lost cats while his real passion lies in writing literature.

The entire film is built around a central story part where they take shelter from a taifun, it involves scenes of such profound beauty, you will be moved to tears. The beauty lies in the things that are not spoken out, yet linger in the air like rain: To say the film deals with abandoned dreams in the face of reality is wrong, it's the contrary. If you keep waiting for beauty in life, you will not realize that it has already arrived.

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Why can't you just do it for yourself? Uchis also references her own personal difficulties of living in America, far away from her Colombian family members.

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I hate that sometimes I can't go home And it just ain't the same on the phone, no But everybody's gotta go on, don't they? Yes, we do, baby "I was in Canada, so I was traveling a lot. I was trying to work on my album," Uchis explained.

I guess that's where the part about me wanting to go home comes from, a little bit of the sadness of what it's like every day, having to live without the people that you love and having to be far away even from my family. They live in Colombia. All the people that I really care about are either dead or they live far away. It's like just kinda having to pick yourself up and keep going.