Performing Kaoru’s Funeral confronts the ironic limits of hatred and love at the instance of our deaths. A darkly comic family drama, Performing Kaoru’s Funeral welcomes the complexity of passions at the heart of inventive family life.

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★The film also tells the story of Kaoru's daughter, KAORU, and Yokotani becoming a new family. Therefore, the feature film "Paforming Kaoru’s Funeral" is drawn not only from the perspective of the main character Yokotani, but also from the perspective of the daughter (KAORU). This is a two-day funeral, depicting the changes in the relationship between two completely incompatible girl (KAORU) and Yokotani in three acts.

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Kaoru Washizu, an infamously greedy screen writer, dies suddenly in a traffic accident. While some seek reconciliation and others revenge at the moment of their death, Kaoru takes the opportunity to bind her impoverished ex-husband (Jun Yokotani) in an obligation of mourning and meticulous respect.

Eight years after their divorce, Jun is startled by Kaoru’s last demand, but travels far in confusion to Okayama to host her funeral as chief mourner. An actor (self-proclaimed) who usually teaches at a preparatory school, Jun cannot refuse either the request of his past love nor a vast promised fortune if he performs Kaoru’s Funeral to the letter of her Will.

Lonely but not alone, Jun is accompanied by Kaoru’s co-workers Yuriko and Tomoki. They too will help see the preparations to Kaoru’s Will, without love but only bitterness for their greedy colleague. Rumors and gossip emerge that Kaoru’s end was no accident, recalling memories of harassment and threats. “I would have killed her, if I was never punished for doing so” said Yuriko.Jun also meet with Kaoru’s daughter, KAORU, who looks just like Kaoru, only in younger form. As cute and beautiful and hateful as her mother, KAORU coldly tells Jun at first sight, “Funeral was the last wish of my mother. You have to hold the service perfectly, not missing a thing from her will. Your only reason for being here is to do so.”His isolation increasing, Jun remembers only his marriage with Kaoru, a woman full of honest emotions, who cried, laughed and grew excited at simple things. Kaoru’s death no longer separated him only from her, but from all that he thought he knew in her world.

Simultaneously dumb, adorable, ugly and beautiful, the characters of Performing Kaoru’s Funeralbring viewers through a sarcastic veneer deep into the heart and obligations of family.