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Director’s Name: Henric Olsson
Writer’s Name: Henric Olsson
Producer: Mikael Larsson
Country of Origin: United States, Sweden
Country of Filming : United States, Sweden
Language: English, Japanese
Runtime: 19 minutes 30 seconds
Film Description:
Yukiko is hiding in America with her paralyzed husband Dakuto after the brutal murder of their daughter.
Yukiko’s fragile exile is shattered when their former yakuza boss tracks them down. His offer is cruel and clear: eliminate Red Snake — a violent, unhinged ex-ally also hiding in America — and perhaps reclaim a fragment of their old lives.
But with Dakuto, once a feared hitman, now confined to a wheelchair, it falls to Yukiko — a woman who has never killed before — to carry out the impossible. Thrust into a desperate, life-or-death mission, she must navigate a ruthless criminal underworld, following brutal survival rules: hide in plain sight, feign weakness, and strike without mercy.
As Yukiko climbs a brutal ladder of villains, what begins as a quest for revenge transforms into something far deeper — an awakening of buried strength, a reckoning with grief, and the unbearable price of love. Framed by haunting VHS tapes that reveal themselves as glimpses of the afterlife, Yukiko builds to a shattering climax where sacrifice becomes reunion, and peace is found beyond violence.