Sanshaku tamashii

This film is an emotional roller coaster, mostly on the down side, but with a satisfying ,hopeful, ending.

As the story opens a group of four people (two men and 2 women) gather in a small shed with a three foot diameter Firework shell in the middle. It become obvious that they have all gathered together to commit suicide. After a short contentious conversation between the three older people (two men and one woman) with the teenage girl. She grabs the detonator and sets it off, There is a flash and suddenly the scene is back to where the first person is back in the shed.

The story proceeds as each time the shell goes off the people in the room gather more and more information about why each of them are planning to commit suicide and come to realize that their reason are not as insurmountable as they initially thought.

In the end they decide not go through with their plan and we see how each of the members lives proceed and that they all end up making a contribution to their friends , family and society as a whole.