The Parades

The Parades (パレード, 2024) is a Japanese drama-fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Michihito Fujii. Masami Nagasawa leads this quietly devastating story about grief and what keeps the dead from moving on.

A mother loses her son in a catastrophe and goes looking for him — only to realise she herself has already died. She drifts through a liminal realm of restless spirits, each one held there by something left undone. No exits. No timeline. Just loss that insists on being processed before it lets anyone leave.

Fujii frames the afterlife not as spectacle but as a waiting room for unfinished feelings — closer in spirit to Japanese literary fiction than to ghost-story cinema. Stream The Parades (2024) online on iFILM.