Himizu (2011) on Netflix
Keiko Shazawa is a rich girl whose parents ignore her. Her classmate Yuichi Sumida is beaten by his father. After an earthquake and tsunami, the two teenagers lean on each other.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.1/105,461 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
Yuichi Sumida is a teenage boy whose father is violent toward him. Keiko Shazawa, his classmate, comes from a wealthy family whose attention she never gets. Neither of them finds kindness at home: at best their parents ignore them, and at worst they are told to end their lives. The two befriend each other and share the misery and the pain each of them carries. Then the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami strike Japan. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the classmates have to work out how to survive, and each of them becomes the other's source of emotional and physical support.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Himizu (2011)
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- Sion Sono had already written the script when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on 11 March 2011, and afterwards he decided to rewrite it to adapt the film to the disaster.
- Dylann Roof, who carried out the Charleston church shooting on 17 June 2015, quoted the line "Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society" in his manifesto "The Last Rhodesian" and identified Himizu as his favorite film.
