Canada, Japan2025105 minEnglish, Japanese with English subtitlesToronto Premiere
Kana, a struggling visual artist, returns to Japan after years away in Vancouver to attend her beloved grandmother’s funeral. The familiar cadence of family dynamics endure and yet, everything feels different. While in Tokyo, Kana discovers her grandfather had a love of his life outside of his arranged marriage to her grandmother. Meanwhile, Kana reluctantly confronts her own messy romantic past with old flame Hiro to see if the embers of their love still flicker.
Adapted from a play and short film of the same name, powerhouse actor-writer-director Mayumi Yoshida presents an impressively romantic first feature, beautifully lensed across two timelines. Yoshida deftly balances swooning, dreamlike nostalgia with the universal realities of distance, time, and circumstance.
– Aram Siu Wai Collier
Mayumi Yoshida
Hana Kino
Ryo Tajima
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2025
Mayumi Yoshida
Mayumi Yoshida 吉田真由美 is a Vancouver-based director, actor, and writer whose global upbringing shapes her “in-betweener” storytelling. An alum of TIFF Writer’s Studio and Warner Bros. Discovery Access, she directed the Juno-nominated Different Than Before, has won SXSW’s Jury Award, and screened at Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals.
9 Nov, 2025 7:00 pm
TIFF Lightbox C2PG
CONTENT ADVISORY
Death and dying
IN PERSON ACCESSIBILITY:
This film is being presented with English subtitles for all spoken dialogue (no sound cues indicated).
Wheelchair spaces and step-free seating is available for this screening – click below to book accessible seats.
Join us for a Q&A immediately after the screening with director Mayumi Yoshida, producer Nach Dudsdeemaytha, moderated by Reel Asian artistic director Aram Siu Wai Collier.
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