Japanese director Kei Ishikawa’s feature follows an attorney pursuing the shady hidden past of his former client’s deceased husband.
A kind widower discovers the man she loved had a hidden past in Japanese mystery thriller A Man, directed by Kei Ishikawa and world premiering at the Venice Film Fest next week.
In the first international trailer for the film (see below), a troubled lawyer (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is drawn into a web of mystery and a search for identity when a former client (played by Shoplifters star Sakura Ando) asks him to investigate the shady past of her deceased husband (a beguiling Masataka Kubota).
The attorney encounters various people in his pursuit of the identify of a man who had lived his life as a different person — but as he comes closer to the shocking truth, mixed feelings about the nature of love and his own place in the world steadily creep up on him.
A Man makes its world premiere in Venice’s Horizons section on Sept. 1.
