A Long Goodbye

An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.

Four hectic days unfold as a family reunites after the death of the world’s most troublesome big brother.

Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo to remember him by.

An emotional drama about teenage Asako and her relationship with Yuhei, a man who became a father figure to her for six months when she was five years old after he started dating her mother. Thirteen years later, she discovers he is serving a prison sentence, having been convicted of her mother’s murder.