FATHER'S SERVICE AREA

2001 · 41 min · Documentary

A daughter parts on a journey to retrace the steps of her father, who has gone to choose the place of his own death. Mixing interviews with her mother, her older half- brother, her aunt and the person who found the body, she follows the second half of her father's life ---a live previously unknown to her--- up until his death. As the film shi from snowbound Northern Japan to tropical Palau, the image of her father as one human being among others is revealed amongst the landscape.

Directed by Mamiko Hiwatari