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There Was Such a Thing Before (2025)

Name: There Was Such a Thing Before
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025
Duration: 131 min

Directed by Yoshihiko Matsui

“Summer of 2021, in Fukushima.”

Drama · 2h 11m

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.