Before We Vanish
2017 · Movie · 129 min · ★ 6.5 · 72% critics
After a husband vanishes and returns strangely changed, his spouse struggles to understand what happened as his new gentleness feels unsettling. At the same time, a journalist investigating a brutal family murder encounters an unexplained phenomenon, and both mysteries begin to hint at a larger, creeping threat.
Also known as The Strolling Invaders
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Details
- Original title
- 散歩する侵略者
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-09-06
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (100 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like paranoid, people-aren’t-themselves sci‑fi with a strong opening mystery and uneasy mood, similar to Creepy or Doppelganger; Not for you if you need a tight, fully satisfying ending.
Pros: strong early mystery; thoughtful sci-fi idea; solid performances | Cons: drifts near the end; uneven payoff; some weak effects
Themes
- journalist
- japan
- husband wife relationship
- based on play or musical
- husband wife estrangement
- investigative journalism
- personality change
- mysterious disappearance
- husband wife conflict
- personality swap
Cast & crew
Masami Nagasawa
as Narumi Kase
Ryuhei Matsuda
as Shinji Kase
Mahiro Takasugi
as Amano
Yuri Tsunematsu
as Akira Tachibana
Hiroki Hasegawa
as Journalist Sakurai
Atsuko Maeda
as Asumi Kase
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
as Maruo
Masahiro Higashide
as Pastor
Kazuya Kojima
as Detective Kurumada
Ken Mitsuishi
as Suzuki
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa