Tetsuya Tomina

After Life meets Haibane Renmei. Japan loves a good limbo story, Who Were We is the (almost) perfect arthouse execution of the setup. Matsuda and Komatsu are stellar, the cinematography is otherworldly and the soundtrack is stylish. There's not much in the way of a story, this is mostly a mood piece with some slice-of-life (pun intended) scenes scattered in between. I don't get the 4:3 aspect ratio, I feel I never will, but other than that this was a marvelous film.