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Katatsumori is about filmmaker Naomi Kawase and her relationship with her great-aunt, who raised her. It unfolds over about 40 minutes and is very simple, just observing the life of a woman in her early 80s and featuring reflections about growing old and moving onto a different stage in one's life.

I sort of let it wash over me, and am not really sure if there's a deeper meaning behind it all; there certainly could be, or it might just be intended to function as a way to merely capture life. It's unconventional and a little repetitive, but I think it succeeds in what it (seems to) set out to do, and is effectively bittersweet.