Akashi (2025)★ 7.6/10
- Drama
- Romance
Directed by: Mayumi Yoshida
Written by: Mayumi Yoshida
A struggling artist returns to Japan for her grandmother's funeral, where uncovering a family secret and reconnecting with an old love, forces her to confront her own choices in love and career.
- Original title
- Akashi
- Storyline
- Ten years after moving to Vancouver, struggling visual artist Kana Yamamoto (Mayumi Yoshida) returns to Tokyo to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother. Arriving in Japan, she rekindles a tentative flame with her bashful ex-boyfriend, Hiro (Ryo Tajima), an aspiring thespian who vanished from her life a decade prior. As Kana digs deeper into her grandmother’s past, she uncovers a family secret that prompts her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, duty, and belonging.
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 32
- Companies
- Crave, Experimental Forest Films, flag, Hollywood Suite, Musubi Arts, Tokyo Film Commission, Téléfilm Canada, Watermark Media
- Release dates
- CA October 5, 2025