Legendary Actor Tatsuya Fuji in GREAT ABSENCE, directed by Kei Chika-ura | Opens in NY July 19 & in LA July 26

Source: Picturehouse press release
Official Site: https://great-absence.com/
Special Thanks to Isaac Davidson (Cinetic Marketing & PR)

GREAT ABSENCE (大いなる不在, Oinaru Fuzai, 2023), written & directed by Kei Chika-ura and starring legendary actor Tatsuya Fuji (IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES), opens Friday, July 19 in New York at Angelika Film Center opens Friday, July 26 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica and Glendale. The national rollout will follow.

Synopsis

Distanced from his father for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call – his father’s second wife, Naomi, is missing, and Yohji himself has disconnected from reality. Takashi starts a search for truth in the present – that has long fingers into the truth of his past.

2023 / Japan / 133 minutes

Written & Directed by: Kei Chika-ura (COMPLICITY)

Co-Written by: Keita Kumano

Stars: Mirai Moriyama (SHIN KAMEN RIDER, INU-OH), Yoko Maki (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON; AFTER THE STORM), Hideko Hara (SHALL WE DANCE?), Tatsuya Fuji (IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, EMPIRE OF PASSION, BRIGHT FUTURE)

Producers: Kei Chika-ura, Miho Horiike

Distributors: GAGA Corporation in association with Picturehouse

About GAGA Corporation

Founded in 1986, GAGA Corporation is a leading independent film distributor and producer in Japan. It has distributed eight Academy Award Best Pictures and over 100 Academy nominated films. GAGA has collaborated with auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda since I WISH. His SHOPLIFTERS won Palme d’Or and was nominated for Academy’s Best Foreign Picture. Recently, the company started to produce and distribute Japanese animations such as OKKO’S INN, RYOMA! THE PRINCE OF TENNIS, and DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION and is forging a “multi-portfolio strategy”, which involves not only international film distribution, local film and anime production, and international sales but international co-production, game and character business derived from anime.

About Picturehouse

Picturehouse is a Los Angeles-based film marketing and distribution company led by CEO Bob Berney and COO Jeanne R. Berney. The company acquires, markets and distributes global content across all platforms. Originally formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Time Warner's HBO Films and New Line Cinema, the Picturehouse brand has a long history of storied excellence