Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes. He becomes a “Johatsu”, as the Japanese call the 80,000 people who disappear overnight each year. Corry faces a double ordeal: saving a child while coping with the loss of the man she loves.
She taught as a college lecturer before releasing Embracing. Employing her interest in autobiography, most of her first short films focus on her turbulent family history, including her abandonment and her father's death. Many of her first forays into filmmaking were autobiographical, inspired heavily by the rural landscape. Between 1994 and 1996, she released a trilogy of films about her great-aunt: Katatsumori, See Heaven and Sun on the Horizon. Her film The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. Her later films Still the Water (2014) and Sweet Bean (2015) were also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. In April 2016 she chaired the Jury for the Cinéfondation and short films section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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