''Last Shadow at First Light'' is a 2023 internationally co-produced

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written and directed by Singaporean director Nicole Midori Woodford in her feature-length debut. It premiered at the

71st San Sebastián International Film Festival The 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival will run 22–30 September 2023 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. Background In May 2023, actor Javier Bardem was announced as a recipient of a Donostia Award as well as the main feature ...

in September 2023, where it was in competition for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award.

Cast

Masatoshi Nagase is a Japanese actor. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's '' Cold Fever'' and Jim Jarmusch's ''Mystery Train''. Nagase was described by Todd Brown of Twitch Film as "one of the great unsung heroes of Japane ...

as Ami's uncle * Mihaya Shirata as Ami *

Mariko Tsutsui is a Japanese actress. Personal life Tsutsui graduated from Kōfu Daiichi High School in Yamanashi Prefecture. She dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University. She later graduated from the Waseda University School of Social Sciences. As well as a ...

as Ami's mother *

Peter Yu Peter Yu (born 3 April 1968) is a Singaporean actor. He was one of the finalists from the 1990 ''Star Search'' competition, organised by Mediacorp. Yu is known for his starring roles in many Channel 8 series in the 1990s, notably ''The Grea ...

as Ami's father * Yong Ser Pin as Ami's grandfather

Production

The film won the SEAFIC Lab's SEA Open Fund and

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Feature Lab's TFL Coproduction Award. It was also developed at the

Singapore International Film Festival The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) ( Chinese: 新加坡国际电影节) is the longest-running film festival in Singapore. Founded in 1987, the festival has a focus on showcasing international films and providing a global platform fo ...

's SEA Lab and Talents Tokyo. It received support from the

Singapore Film Commission Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borderi ...

, Slovenian Film Centre, Purin Pictures and Talents Tokyo Next Masters Support Program, among others. Most of the filming took place in and around

Rikuzentakata is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. In the census of 2010, the city had a population of 23,302 (2005: 24,709), and a population density of 100 persons per km². The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to the ci ...

in Japan, a city which was largely devastated by the

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. The film was also shot in

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