The Light Shines Only There

In a Japanese port town, Tatsuo Sato, a man traumatized by the past, spends his days drifting aimlessly and his nights drinking himself into oblivion. Whiling his hours away at a pachinko parlor, he meets Takuji Ohshiro, a young man on parole who impulsively invites him to a shabby house on the outskirts of town. There, Tatsuo meets Takuji's bedridden father, his callous mother, and his world-weary older sister Chinatsu. l. (San Sebastian International Film Festival)