Okurimono
| Okurimono | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Laurence Lévesque |
| Written by | Laurence Lévesque |
| Produced by | Rosalie Chicoine Perreault Catherine Boily |
| Starring | Noriko Oi |
| Cinematography | Sébastien Blais |
| Edited by | Marie-Pier Grignon |
| Music by | Wilhelm Brandl |
Production company | Metafilms |
| Distributed by | Spira |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Japanese |
Okurimono is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurence Lévesque and released in 2024. The film centres on Noriko, a Japanese Canadian woman returning home to Japan to after her mother's death, where she seeks to find a greater understanding of her mother's experience as a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945.
The film went into production in 2022 under the working title Mama no himitsu.
The film premiered at the 2024 Visions du Réel documentary film festival, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.