New trailer for Love Life | in UK/Ireland cinemas 15 September 2023, on BFI Player 6 November

From the Cannes award-winning director of Harmonium and Goodbye Summer, Kôji Fukada’s new family drama, Love Life, is a beguiling, beautifully paced portrait of a family navigating the aftermath of a tragedy.

Inspired by Japanese singer and musician Akiko Yano’s song “Love Life”, the film tells the story of Taeko (Fumino Kimura) and her husband Jiro (Kento Nagayama) who are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita (Tetta Shimada), when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park (Atom Sunada), back into Taeko’s life.

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