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Basic Info
Release: October 14, 2025

In Their Traces

2025
Overview

Sexual abuse has been characterized as a “murder of the spirit.” But is this a suffering that one person must bear alone? Beyond despair, there is hope, a faint ray of light from the spirit. A friend of the filmmaker suffers from PTSD, having flashbacks of sexual abuse. Having witnessed this, the filmmaker meets a photographer who is also a survivor and decides to make a film. The long production process lasted eight years. What is the nature of the despair, and the hope, that reside deep within these people suffering from PTSD conditions including regret, murderous impulses, depression, insomnia, detachment, and suicidal thoughts? The director appears on screen, questioning the very meaning of making this film. He tries to see light in how they live, looking upward from the depths of suffering.

Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
  • Japan
Spoken Languages
  • Japanese ja

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Cast
Crew
Shigeru Kobayashi
Director
Norio Nagakura
Producer
Takeshi Hata
Takeshi Hata
Producer
Kaori Oda
Kaori Oda
Cinematography
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