After the Quake (2025)
Grade: Ba
Format: Film
Genre: Drama
Studio: Chiaroscuro
Source: novel
Netflix Global Top 10: Did not reach Global Top 10
Four interconnected stories span three decades of Japanese trauma — from a man unmoored by his wife's vanishing after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, to a runaway girl building bonfires on the eve of the 2011 Tōhoku disaster, to a young man questioning his absent father during the 2020 pandemic, to a solitary security guard in 2025 Tokyo visited by a giant frog urging him to save the city. The film traces how collective catastrophe ripples through private lives, exploring grief, disconnection, and the surreal ways people seek meaning when the ground beneath them — literally and figuratively — gives
Cast
- Masaki Okada
- Ai Hashimoto
- Erika Karata
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi
- Yui Narumi