Ririka Kawashima turns heads as a grief-stricken teen who must confront a childhood friend in Shingo Matsumura's drama, which promises much but only partially delivers.
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Tokyo International Film Festival The lingering trauma shared by two middle-class families, once friendly but now estranged following a tragic camping incident, is finally addressed through the unlikely prism of a high-school drama club production in “Between Us,” Shingo Matsumura’s well-intentioned, yet only fitfully successful, exploration of unprocessed grief. The writer-director’s fourth feature film premieres as part of the Tokyo Film Festival’s revamped and newly competitive Nippon Cinema Now section and is bolstered by a quartet of assured performances from its female leads.
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