# Before We Vanish (2017)

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**Original title**: *散歩する侵略者*
**Runtime**: 129 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Written by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka
**Starring**: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Mahiro Takasugi, Yuri Tsunematsu, Hiroki Hasegawa, Atsuko Maeda

> *Don't let them into your head.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Outside a Tokyo apartment, a winter dawn cracks open over broken dishes in the sink. Narumi’s husband returns after days away, soft-spoken, carrying plastic grocery bags he never emptied. A journalist watches police tape flutter over a bloodied living room floor as ceiling lights flicker without cause.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, paranoid, slow-burn

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