Sakamoto Ayumi : 2013
Back at school, Ayako and Yukari used to be friends. Ten years later, Ayako is an office manager, while Yukari has a menial job on a construction site. A chance meeting rekindles their friendship, with Ayako even offering Yukari a job at her company. Yet once they are colleagues, Ayako is quick to belittle her supposed friend, undermining her at every turn while carefully preventing her aggression from becoming overt. As Yukari herself puts it, there's something strange going on here. Were they really such good friends back then? How do teenage animosities play out in the world of work? How long can past tensions remain buried? As Ayako and Yukari's relationship grows ever more complicated, so too does the film itself, gradually leaving its linear beginnings behind until very little remains certain. Sakamoto Ayumi's slow-burning thriller, her directorial debut, premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival 2013, and was winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin International Film Festival 2014.
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