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I Want To Go Home

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Family · True Story · Disaste · Environment  

  • CountrySingapore,Japan
  • Production Year2017
  • Running Time60min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Yasuo Takamatsu, lost his wife Yuko in the tsunami during the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Unable to get over the sadness and sense of loss, he obtains a diving license and searches the sea every couple of weeks trying to locate his lost wife, who disappeared after sending him a text saying, “I want to go home”. Through Takamatsu’s story this documentary explores the ideas of loss and recovery in unexpected disasters, dwelling on that catastrophic moment and asking “Would she be alive if I’d picked her up from the bank where she was working? What should I have done?” He tries to accept her death and find the strength to recover from his bereavement. Many survivors have left the town to forget their painful memories, but he remains, searching for his wife’s body among the debris. In the process, he sometimes returns some of the everyday things he finds to their owners. In the end, this documentary becomes one about recovery and love. (CHO Hyeyoung)
Director
Director
Wesley Leon AROOZOO
Aroozoo is a lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts and a filmmaker with 13 Little Pictures. He graduated with an MFA from New York University Tisch Asia and a BFA with Honours from Nanyang Technological University. His literary works include Bedok Reservoir (2012) and the literary version of I Want To Go Home.
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  • Director Wesley Leon AROOZOO 웨슬리 레온 아루주
  • Producer Shengjuan HO, Miki HAWKINSON
  • Cinematography Jon CHAN
  • Music John CHUA
  • Production Company 13 Little Pictures
    Singapore Blk 415C, Fernvale Link, #13-70, Singapore 793415
    moomeow@gmail.com

  • World Sales 13 Little Pictures
    Singapore Blk 415C, Fernvale Link, #13-70, Singapore 793415
    moomeow@gmail.com