Watch The Trailer For Sion Sono's HIMIZU

When catastrophe struck Japan earlier this year in the form of the most powerful earthquake to ever hit the nation and a subsequent tsunami, maverick filmmaker Sion Sono was already in the afflicted region working on his latest feature Himizu. But rather than be daunted by events Sono simply adapted and incorporated them directly into the film, the results of which debuted at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.

Toronto described the film like this:

A rare film that evokes our present-day atmosphere with surprising immediacy. The story of a boy and a girl who are confronted with a horrific personal reality against the backdrop of the devastation caused by this year's earthquake in Japan. An adaptation of Minoru Furuya's successful manga of the same name, Himizu is the latest film by Sion Sono, the Japanese master of extreme filmmaking.

With a Japanese release now approaching the first trailer for Sono's latest has now arrived and can be watched below.