Whanganui Film Society's next screening is After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku), a 2016 offering from Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu.
"Kore-eda Hirokazu's films are always a favourite among festival and film society-goers, and this one should be no exception," says Whanganui Film Society president Helen Marie O'Connell.
This characteristically worldly, affectionate and wryly amusing family drama from Hirokazu centres on handsome, charming Ryoto (Hiroshi Abe), a formerly successful novelist who pines for his ex-wife Kyoko (Yoko Maki) and his 12-year-old son Shingo (Taiyo Yoshizawa).
Working as a private detective to support a serious gambling habit, he seems an unlikely prospect for re-marriage, but when they are stranded together at his mother's home during a typhoon, he sees a chance to reunite.
Reviewer Deborah Young of the Hollywood Reporter described the film as "bittersweet".