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HANALEI BAY (HANALEI BEI)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, KOREA (South) PROMO BUYER REP
 
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Completed - JAPANESE, ENGLISH - Drama - 97 minutes

Log Line

A Japanese woman whose teenage son has been killed by a shark is drawn back to the place of his death in Hanalei Bay in Hawaii.

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Daishi MATSUNAGA
Writer(s) : Daishi MATSUNAGA
Cast : Yoh YOSHIDA, Reo SANO, Nijiro MURAKAMI, Guy SATO

Producer(s) : Shinji OGAWA (BRIDGEHEAD Inc.)

Synopsis

A Japanese teenager was killed while surfing in Hawaii. His single mother Sachi flies to Hanalei Bay and confronts this sudden loss. Since then for ten years, Sachi visits the island every year in the same season and stays a couple of weeks to reconnect with her estranged son.
Sachi can’t fill in the gap of an unbearable distance after all, but one day she meets with two young surfers about the same age as her son when he died.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN, USA

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Festivals and Awards

Hawaii International Film Festival 2018


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