Johatsu – Into Thin Air

In Japan, people can vanish without a trace with the help of so-called “night moving” companies, which help people to disappear from their current lives. Known as the Johatsu, or “the evaporated,” these people leave everything behind to start a new life somewhere else.  The film features individual stories of people who purposely vanish from their previous identities.When his family business goes bankrupt, Sugimoto seeks a “night mover”. Goto, meanwhile, is a single mother searching for her missing son with the help from a private detective who tracks down “the evaporated” for his clients. Johatsu – Into Thin Air is a film about the missing and the seeking, the transition into a second life, and the industries created around this phenomenon.