Release Date : September, 8th, 2007
Screen Time : 136 min.
Genre : Drama, Fiction, Feature

Color : Color
Screening Format : 35mm
Screen Size : -
Sound System : -
Sound Processing : DTS

[ Directed by ] AOYAMA Shinji

[ Produced by ] KAI Naoki

[ Cast ]

• ASANO Tadanobu SHIRAISHI Kenji
• ISHIDA Eri MAMIYA Chiyoko
• MIYAZAKI Aoi TAMURA Kozue
• ODAGIRI Joe GOTO

[ Staff ]

• AOYAMA Shinji Screenplay
• AOYAMA Shinji Original Story
• TAMRA Masaki Director of Photography
• OSHIGE Yuji Editor
• NAGASHIMA Hiroyuki Music
• SHIMIZU Tsuyoshi Production Design

[ Production Company ]

Stylejam, 2007 SAD VACATION Film Partners

[ Story ]

Aoyama Shinji's homage to human beings, based on his novel of the same title. A sequel to Helpless and EUREKA . Asano Tadanobu and Miyazaki Aoi continue to play the main roles as Kenji and Kozue. The two previous films intertwine and this is the concluding part.
Kenji lives with Yuri, a younger sister of his childhood friend, Yasuo. He meets an orphan boy while helping illegal Chinese immigrants. Kenji brings the boy home, and the communal life of the three begins. One day, Kenji has a chance encounter with his mother (Ishida Eri), who is nothing but an object of hatred for him, as she abandoned him along with his father in the past. Kenji, however, gains a job at a transportation company ran by Mamiya, her husband. Mamiya has been providing accommodation and work for people with emotional scars and with nowhere else to go. Kozue is one of the employees at the company. Kenji swears revenge against his mother, but his determination is swayed by her motherhood. Having witnessed the unwavering way of life of the women, Kenji begins to find hope for the future.
Entered in the Venice International Film Festival in 2007.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.sadvacation.jp/