We are delighted to welcome director (and Hammersmith local) Patrick Dickinson to our cinema for a post-show Q&A after this special screening.
From Tokyo to the Lake District - a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss in which the true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and their son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Kenzaburo's wife and Toshi's mother, Akiko, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere. But the father's and son’s fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
Starring Hirokazu Kore-eda regular, Lily Franky (Shoplifters, After the Storm, Like Father, Like Son) and with a supporting role from Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2).