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Distance

  • Director: Anthony Lover
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Themes: Infidelity, Crumbling Marriages, Interracial/Cross-Cultural Romance
  • Main Cast: Paul Benjamin, Eija Pokkinen, James Woods, Bibi Besch
  • Release Year: 1975
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 94 minutes

Plot

The marital difficulties of two army couples provides the focus of this drama, set in the 1950s. The first marriage is between a black sergeant and his German wife. The other chronicles the difficulty of a married private who is having an affair with an older woman. He doesn't love his wife anymore, but he cannot bring himself to tell her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Polly Holliday - Mrs. Herman; Bruce Kornbluth; Hal Miller - Jesse

Credit

Anthony Lover - Director, Anthony Lover - Editor, Anthony Lover - Cinematographer, George Coe - Producer, Jay Castle - Screenwriter
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Distance
Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
Produced by Masayuki Akieda
Written by Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring Arata
Yusuke Iseya
Susumu Terajima
Yui Natsukawa
Cinematography Yutaka Yamasaki
Editing by Hirokazu Koreeda
Release date(s) France May 10, 2001
Japan May 26, 2001
Running time 132 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Distance is a 2001 movie by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Asano Tadanobu, Iseya Yusuke, Terajima Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui.

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Plot

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 (the credited cast, minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths. They meet a former member of the cult (Asano), who had trained for the water sabotage attack but defected at the last minute. He leads them to the cabin he's currently holed up in, where he and the deceased cult members had trained for the attack, and they pass the night reminiscing about those they'd known and lost, shown cinematically through improvised dialogues and flashbacks. Sakata, the aforementioned surviving cult and last to see most of the departed alive, and Atsushi (Arata) interrogate one another about Yûko (played by actress/model Ryo), Atsushi's sister, whom Sakata had asked to run away with him the night before the attack.

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Awards

This film was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

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