Japanese director Yuko Hakota's sincere and touching debut full-length feature follows Sunada (Kaho, a Japanese TV darling who also co-starred in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister), a 30-year-old TV commercial director whose work and home lives leave something to be desired. With her quirky best friend Kiyoura (Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung) who fancies herself an amateur chanteuse, she embarks on a road trip from Tokyo to her childhood home in the countryside of Ibaraki. In a setting that's both familiar and changed, Sunada and Kiyoura reimagine themselves and consider how one's childhood shapes a person. Full of gorgeous color thanks to cinematographer Ryûto Kondô (Shoplifters, MVFF 2018), Blue Hour is a visual treat which evenly blends awkwardly funny scenes with emotionally stirring drama in this remarkable coming-of-age-in-your-30s tale.