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SHIBIRE

By Takuya UCHIYAMA

COLORBIRD INC. - as SALES DVD-video, Theatrical, TV, VOD, Airline, World / PROD

Drama - Completed 2025

A boy who no longer speaks, shaped by a tyrannical father and a mother he both resents and loves, grows up on Japan’s northern coast. With nowhere to belong, he returns to seek his father, setting his fate in motion.

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& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2026

Panorama

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Takuya UCHIYAMA
- Writer(s)
- Takuya UCHIYAMA
- Cast
- Takumi KITAMURA, Rie MIYAZAWA, Masatoshi NAGASE
- Producer(s)
- Takuro NAGAI (RIKI Project), Yasushi MIYAMAE (ColorBird Inc.)
- Synopsis
- In the snowy coastal city of Niigata, blanketed in grey skies and the roar of winter waves, Daichi, a boy who has lost his voice under the tyranny of his father in early childhood, lives in a prefab room on the rooftop of an old multi-tenant building with his mother, Aki. She works in the nightlife trade, pours her earnings into men, and is rarely home, leaving their extreme poverty and deep separation from society to define their days. In this hidden corner of the world, he grows shy and inward, seeking small traces of solace and love, yet finding no place to belong.
  
  Aki, now suffering from severe liver cirrhosis caused by years of alcoholism, moves with Daichi into the home of her sister, a devout follower of a new religious sect. There, she endures oppressive demands from her controlling lover, clinging to him even as she is harmed, while Daichi can do nothing but watch.
  
  As faint light reaches him and he comes to know a sudden, breathtaking love, Daichi’s fate, buffeted by forces far beyond his grasp, begins to shift.

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SHIBIRE

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