In the Wake

Osaka. Summer. The buzzing of flies. Corpses turn up, strangely posed. A detective fixates on a paroled predator, but the simplest answers never arrive. Zeze's police procedural withholds as much as it reveals.

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Takahisa Zeze directed In the Wake in 2021. See Takahisa Zeze's full filmography, where to start with Takahisa Zeze, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takahisa Zeze.

In the Wake was released in 2021 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 134 minutes.