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Fire: Distance, 2001

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In this highly improvisational film, the trauma influenced by the apocalyptic cult Aum Shinrikyō is re-examined through the imagined stories of four surviving family members. Distance (2001) offers striking, and redemptive, images of fire and water in a remote forest landscape.

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  1. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Linda C. Ehrlich

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Ehrlich, L.C. (2019). Fire: Distance, 2001. In: The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33051-4_8

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