Synapse follows a story of a female shut-in gig worker who does whatever it takes to have breakfast with her husband once again.
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburō receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburō travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son's fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
Inspired by the expression "something like ◯◯" often used in the news, this work is a group drama about nine people and one animal, where a special dream, diverse love, and unbridled self-affirmation intertwine.
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
