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2025

Ani o Mochihakoberu Size ni

Bring Him Down to a Portable Size

兄を持ち運べるサイズに

(c)2025 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

(c)2025 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

(c)2025 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

(c)2025 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

Release Date
November, 28th, 2025
Running Time
127 min
Genre
Drama , Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
DCP
Subtitle
,
Screening Format with Subtitles
English (DCP)

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

CULTURE PUBLISHERS

[ Story ]

Nakano Ryota, known for Her Love Boils Bathwater and The Asadas, helms this drama about family members brought together by a brother's sudden death.
Riko (Shibasaki Ko) is a writer who gets a call from the police about her older brother's (Odagiri Joe) sudden death. She returns to Tohoku where her brother lived, and at the police station she meets her brother's ex-wife Kanako (Mitsushima Hikari) and their daughter Marina (Aoyama Himeno) for the first time in seven years, and Ryoichi (Mimoto Yota), who is temporarily in the care of child welfare services. They cremate the body, but then...

[ Official Site ]

https://www.culture-pub.jp/ani-movie/

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2025 Busan International Film Festival, Open Cinema
2025 Tokyo International Film Festival, Gala Selection

[ Contact (International) ]

Culture Entertainment Inc.
6F, Meguro Central Square, 3-1-1 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021
Attn: KAMOSHIDA Momoko
fax: +81 3 6868 8717
E-mail: [email protected]
https://culture-pub.jp

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