Cold Bloom

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.

Director: Atsushi Funahashi

Cast: Asami Usuda, Takahiro Miura, Yo Takahashi, Tarō Suwa, Ryushin Tei, Marika Matsumoto, Riki Miura, Yushi Ozawa

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.