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In the Wake

2021 · 134 min

A somber, slow-burning procedural that lingers on grief and moral ambiguity, leaving a heavy, unsettled feeling.

Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Hiroshi Abe, Kaya Kiyohara

Overview: Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.

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Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Hiroshi Abe, Kaya Kiyohara

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
revenge
guilt
morality
trauma
Places: big city
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: thriller, drama
Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Written by: Tamio Hayashi, Takahisa Zeze
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Hiroshi Abe, Kaya Kiyohara, Mitsuko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kento Hayashi, Eita Nagayama, Naoto Ogata
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Cinematography: Atsuhiro Nabeshima
Runtime: 134 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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