{
  "id": 17703022,
  "title": "‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/between-us-director-matsumura-shingo-on-finding-connection-after",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-01T23:17:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/between-us-director-connection-after-disaster-japanese-budgets-1236936999/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Unspoken emotional wounds linger throughout “Between Us,” Japanese director Matsumura Shingo’s new film playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now section, its strand for Japanese films. The film follows Makoto and Kasumi, childhood best friends who drift apart after an incident on a joint family camping trip and reunite six years later […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}