- Advisory:
- PG13. Some Disturbing Scenes and Coarse Language.
- Directed by:
- Doris Dörrie
- Cast:
- Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata, Kurumi Aizawa
- Year:
- 2016
- Duration:
- 1hr 42mins
- Language:
- German, English & Japanese
- Subtitles:
- English
-Dates: 9, 18 July and 3 August-
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Singapore.
Special $7 ticket price.
Young German woman Marie (Rosalie Thomass) escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to 2011 nuclear disaster survivors, some still living in emergency shelters.
Marie soon realizes she‘s absolutely unsuited to the task of making tragedy less weari-some. But instead of running away, Marie decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi (Kaori Momoi), the last geisha of Fukushima, who of her own accord has decided to retreat back to her ruined house in the formerly radioactive Exclusion Zone.
Two women who couldn‘t be more different, but who – each in her own way – are trapped in the past and must learn to liberate themselves from guilt and the burden of memory.