Okurimono
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Directed byLaurence Lévesque
Written byLaurence Lévesque
Produced byRosalie Chicoine Perreault
Catherine Boily
Catherine Boily
StarringNoriko Oi
| Okurimono | |
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| Directed by | Laurence Lévesque |
| Written by | Laurence Lévesque |
| Produced by | Rosalie Chicoine Perreault Catherine Boily |
| Starring | Noriko Oi |
| Cinematography | Sébastien Blais |
| Edited by | Marie-Pier Grignon |
| Music by | Wilhelm Brandl |
Production company | Metafilms |
| Distributed by | Spira |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Japanese |
Okurimono is a 2024 Canadian documentary film directed and written by Laurence Lévesque.[1] The film centres on Noriko, a Japanese Canadian woman returning home to Japan to after her mother's death, where she seeks to find a greater understanding of her mother's experience as a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945.[2]
The film went into production in 2022 under the working title Mama no himitsu.[3]
The film premiered at the 2024 Visions du Réel documentary film festival,[4] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[5]
