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DISTANCE (Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) (Japan Version)

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Director Kore-eda Hirokazu ( Maborosi , After Life ) fuses fiction and documentary with his powerful 2001 film Distance . Told in a distanced, documentary-like style, the film relates the tale of a group of survivors - people whose relatives were all members of a radical religious cult with a frightening plan. The cult engineered a biological virus with the intent of poisoning most of Japan via the water supply, but the entire group died, leaving the surviving family members to congregate and wonder why. But the group gets stuck on the shores of a forest lake - the location of the cult's demise - and is forced to spend the night in a cabin that once belonged to the cult. They also meet Sakata (Asano Tadanobu), who professes to be one of them, but may hold secrets of his own. Full of haunting details and powerful emotions, Distance features an eerily topical subject that finds real world resonance when compared to the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo Cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system - and perhaps even the 2001 9/11 tragedy.

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