Two legends return in this meditative, moving work on the legacy of Hiroshima: director Kiju Yoshida, whose Eros + Massacre is a monument of the Japanese New Wave, and actress Mariko Okada, whose credits include the films of Naruse, Ozu, and Itami. Okada stars as Mrs. Kawase, an elderly woman haunted by memories both distant and present: of Hiroshima (she lost her husband there, and barely survived herself), and of her amnesiac missing daughter, who may have finally reappeared. The two women, accompanied by Kawase's granddaughter Natsuki and her modern concerns of overseas boyfriends and corporate jobs, return to Hiroshima, the site of their memories and forgettings. Melancholy and mysterious, as graceful in form as it is respectful in content, Women in the Mirror uses its silences to reflect on traumas both public and personal, and as a way for the audience to, as Yoshida says, “reconsider the Hiroshima they carry within them, and freely establish a dialogue in this communion with its victims.”