FATHER'S SERVICE AREA 2001

Directed by Mamiko Hiwatari

A daughter parts on a journey to retrace the steps of her father, who has gone to choose the place of his own death. Mixing interviews with her mother, her older half- brother, her aunt and the person who found the body, she follows the second half of her father's life ---a live previously unknown to her--- up until his death. As the film shi from snowbound Northern Japan to tropical Palau, the image of her father as one human being among others is revealed amongst the landscape.