There Was Such a Thing Before (2025)

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Summer of 2021, in Fukushima.

Released 2025-09-13T00:00:00.000Z · 131 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama

Languages: Japanese (original), Japanese (spoken)

Time stands still in the silent streets of Fukushima. Radioactive residues continue to taint the lives of the citizens with a slow, invisible anxiety, trapping them between past wounds and future uncertainties. As his old home was highly exposed to radiation, leading to his mother’s death, young Akira grows up aimless and uprooted. In his search for his lost father, he is assisted by Yuji, the owner of a down-at-heels surfboard shop, as well as a concerned classmate, Shinichi, who becomes increasingly entangled in Akira’s story.

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