At the Triangle Intersection
(Sankakuya no kosaten de)- JAPAN / 2025 / Japanese / Color / DCP / 94 min
Director, Photography: Yamada Toru
Editing: Pham Thi Hao, Yamada Toru
Producer: Kato Seiko
Production Company, Source: IMPLEO Inc.
A couple and the husband’s mother have been living away from the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture since they were evacuated after the nuclear accident. As they make the decision to build a new house, their feelings as husband and wife, parent and child, and daughter-in-law and mother-in-law intersect. The film depicts their emotional struggle to live as their true selves, amidst elderly caregiving of the elderly and complex family relationships—issues brought to the surface by the disaster.
Yamada Toru
Born in Tokyo, Yamada has been making films concerned with Fukushima since March 2011, when the nuclear incident occurred. His works include Shinchi-machi no ryoshitachi (2016) and Ambiguous Loss (2021); one of the films in the omnibus work Four Perspectives: A Decade After 3.11 (2021, YIDFF 2021).