Plot:
Director Junichi Mori displays a thoughtful hand in this beautifully poetic debut feature. Laundry is a story of scars and healing, of gentle ironies and quiet tragedies, of love and second chances. A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars.
- The screenplay for Laundry received the Japan Award 2000 at the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, which continues to introduce high-quality films.