Apartment Complex In “After the Storm”

‘The apartment complex where Yoshiko (Kirin Kiki) lives in the movie “After the Storm” (2016) is the Asahigaoka Apartment Complex in Kiyose City, Tokyo. I actually lived there from when I was nine until I was 28. Residents of the complex I know from back then came to have a look at the filming and congratulate my efforts. They welcomed me back in a somewhat jubilant fashion.’
[Hirokazu Koreeda, director of “After the Storm”]
Director Koreeda explains that ‘not becoming what one wants to become is exactly what also happened with the apartment complexes.’ As a result of a former ambition to expand the development of housing complex areas, apartment complexes were erected all over Japan. However, they are now deteriorating, and their residents are aging. We are forced to concede that the present situation is far different from the initial vision. To the gloomy picture of these apartment complexes, director Koreeda superimposes the painful image and nostalgia of characters who couldn’t become what they once wanted to become.
[“After the Storm” Official Homepage]
* Produced with the assistance of Tokyo Location Box