One Second is as much a tribute to the struggles of a man whose life has stolen from him as it is to a bygone way of looking at movies.
This is a film in which everyone’s dreams are irrevocably broken, the pieces too small to grasp, let alone pick up.
The film follows the fate of two (adoptive) brothers over the course of several decades in the British Concession of Shanghai.
Holding the camera on the aged face of the great Japanese actor Ken Takakura speaks volumes.