There Was Such a Thing Before
2025, Japanese. Directed by Yoshihiko Matsui.
Summer of 2021, in Fukushima.
Time stands still in the silent streets of Fukushima. Radioactive residues continue to taint the lives of the citizens with a slow, invisible anxiety, trapping them between past wounds and future uncertainties. As his old home was highly exposed to radiation, leading to his mother’s death, young Akira grows up aimless and uprooted. In his search for his lost father, he is assisted by Yuji, the owner of a down-at-heels surfboard shop, as well as a concerned classmate, Shinichi, who becomes increasingly entangled in Akira’s story.
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 13 September 2025
- Original title
- こんな事があった
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Yoshihiko Matsui
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There Was Such a Thing Before runs 131 minutes (2h 11m).
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There Was Such a Thing Before isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 13 September 2025. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
What movies are like There Was Such a Thing Before?
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Who directed There Was Such a Thing Before?
There Was Such a Thing Before (2025) was directed by Yoshihiko Matsui and stars Oshirō Maeda, Airu Kubozuka, Arata Iura.