Before We Vanish
Japan, 2017, 125 minutes, Color, Japanese; Turkish captioned, Turkish dubbed, English subtitled
2018 Mainichi Film Concours; Best Actress, 2017 Tama Cinema Forum; Best Actress
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenplay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka
Cinematography: Akiko Ashizawa
Editing: Kōichi Takahashi
Sound: Shinji Wataneb
Music: Yûsuke Hayashi
Production: Nikkatsu Corporation
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yuri Tsunematsu, Masahiro Higashide
Narumi and her husband Shinji are going through a rocky patch when Shinji suddenly vanishes, returning several days later, utterly transformed. He seems to have become another man entirely, loving and attentive. At the same time, a family is brutally murdered, and the town beset by strange phenomena. Journalist Sakurai begins to investigate the mystery.