Before the Dawn

A photo, a phone call, an impossible missing person revelation. The night outside the window slowly droops as the train moves forward, and the 16mm film blurs the street scene of Koenji in Tokyo today, sometimes bright and clear, sometimes retro and hazy. Follow Weng Nao, who came to Japan to study in the 1930s, and roam the maps he wrote: coffee streets, canteens, taverns, and red light districts... to piece together the mysterious life of this talented writer. According to the word-of-mouth passed down by neighbors, the house where he once stayed and the Ronin Street where he walked are like a phantom of him passing through the world.