Last Mile

Last Mile (2024) is a Japanese thriller you can watch online on iFILM. On the night before Black Friday, with warehouses buckling under a flood of orders, a plain cardboard box shipped from the country's largest online retailer detonates in a customer's hands.

One blast is followed by another, then another, scattered across Japan. Nobody can guess whose parcel will go off next, and panic spreads faster than any courier route. Erena Funado has just stepped into the director's chair at a vast distribution hub that handles three-quarters of the freight in the Kanto region. Together with floor manager Ko Nashimoto, she has to keep the conveyor belts moving and, at the same time, work out who is slipping bombs into a river of thousands of identical boxes.

Director Ayuko Tsukahara turns the unseen machinery of e-commerce — the belts, the deadlines, the burnt-out drivers — into the stage for a tense mystery. Hikari Mitsushima and Masaki Okada lead the cast. A solid pick for fans of Japanese thrillers with social bite, where the real culprit is an exhausted system. Stream Last Mile (2024) online on iFILM.