Hirokazu Kore-eda's baby-swap film is another good-natured domestic drama set in contemporary Japan, but it lacks the nuance and innovation of his earlier work
Hirokazu Kore-eda has returned to Cannes with another gentle and warm-hearted family drama in that classic Japanese manner that he has been gravitating towards in recent movies like Still Walking (2008) and I Wish (2011). It is a very decent piece of work, although not as distinctive as those two previous movies, not quite as finely observed and frankly a little schematic and formulaic, with life-lessons being learnt by the obvious people. It does however have charm and abundant human sympathy.
Like Father, Like Son is a "baby-swap" drama: go-getting salaryman Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) and his sleek wife Midori (Machiko Ono) live in a perfect modern house and have a little 6-year-old boy — their only child — whom they push hard educationally. Then the hospital sends the devastating...
Hirokazu Kore-eda has returned to Cannes with another gentle and warm-hearted family drama in that classic Japanese manner that he has been gravitating towards in recent movies like Still Walking (2008) and I Wish (2011). It is a very decent piece of work, although not as distinctive as those two previous movies, not quite as finely observed and frankly a little schematic and formulaic, with life-lessons being learnt by the obvious people. It does however have charm and abundant human sympathy.
Like Father, Like Son is a "baby-swap" drama: go-getting salaryman Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) and his sleek wife Midori (Machiko Ono) live in a perfect modern house and have a little 6-year-old boy — their only child — whom they push hard educationally. Then the hospital sends the devastating...
- 5/18/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A 2-minute preview of Kentaro Horikirizono’s Black Dawn has been released. In contrast to typical movie trailers that play like compressed versions of the movie, this is basically the kind of promo you’d normally see featured on a morning variety show, giving a fully narrated run-down of the story and characters.
The movie follows up a 2009 Nhk drama and features an original story. Atsuro Watabe stars as Sumimoto, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s elite foreign affairs division who’s dubbed the “demon of public safety” for his willingness to employ questionable tactics to get the job done.
When confidential nuclear documents are stolen from a university in the chaos following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and an amount of enriched uranium goes missing in the Korean peninsula, Sumimoto and Matsuzawa (Machiko Ono) begin surveillance of a civilian named Kaori (Yoko Maki), the wife of a company president...
The movie follows up a 2009 Nhk drama and features an original story. Atsuro Watabe stars as Sumimoto, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s elite foreign affairs division who’s dubbed the “demon of public safety” for his willingness to employ questionable tactics to get the job done.
When confidential nuclear documents are stolen from a university in the chaos following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and an amount of enriched uranium goes missing in the Korean peninsula, Sumimoto and Matsuzawa (Machiko Ono) begin surveillance of a civilian named Kaori (Yoko Maki), the wife of a company president...
- 4/24/2012
- Nippon Cinema
Kou Shibasaki, Yoko Maki, and Shinobu Terajima are set to star in a live-action adaptation of Miri Masuda’s popular “Su-chan” manga series.
Titled Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-chan, the movie revolves around three women in their 30s who once worked together at a part-time job. Each try to overcome their worries and self-doubt while living hectic day-to-day lives, but they remain friends throughout it all.
Shibasaki will play Su-chan, a 34-year-old who’s been working at a cafe for about 10 years and has romantic feelings for the manager (Arata Iura, formerly Arata). Maki will play Mai-chan, a 34-year-old office automation machine manufacturer who is involved in an affair. Terajima will play Sawako, a 39-year-old web designer who lives with her mother and a grandmother who requires nursing care.
Shota Sometani, who recently received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Himizu,...
Titled Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-chan, the movie revolves around three women in their 30s who once worked together at a part-time job. Each try to overcome their worries and self-doubt while living hectic day-to-day lives, but they remain friends throughout it all.
Shibasaki will play Su-chan, a 34-year-old who’s been working at a cafe for about 10 years and has romantic feelings for the manager (Arata Iura, formerly Arata). Maki will play Mai-chan, a 34-year-old office automation machine manufacturer who is involved in an affair. Terajima will play Sawako, a 39-year-old web designer who lives with her mother and a grandmother who requires nursing care.
Shota Sometani, who recently received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Himizu,...
- 3/30/2012
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for Kentaro Horikirizono’s Black Dawn has been updated with an HD embed of the movie’s new trailer. It was previously streamed exclusively on Yahoo! Japan.
The movie follows up the 2009 Nhk drama “Gaiji Keisatsu” and features an original screenplay inspired by Iku Aso’s original novel of the same name.
The story is set after the Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011. During the turmoil and confusion that followed, sensitive data on nuclear components was stolen from a major university facility in the affected area.
Sumimoto (Atsuro Watabe), a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s elite foreign affairs/anti-terrorism division, is tailing a woman named Kaori (Yoko Maki), the wife of a company president (Kang-woo Kim) who has been involved in illegal foreign exports and is suspected of being a Korean spy. Sumimoto takes Kaori into custody for collaboration and eventually enlists her help to uncover...
The movie follows up the 2009 Nhk drama “Gaiji Keisatsu” and features an original screenplay inspired by Iku Aso’s original novel of the same name.
The story is set after the Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011. During the turmoil and confusion that followed, sensitive data on nuclear components was stolen from a major university facility in the affected area.
Sumimoto (Atsuro Watabe), a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s elite foreign affairs/anti-terrorism division, is tailing a woman named Kaori (Yoko Maki), the wife of a company president (Kang-woo Kim) who has been involved in illegal foreign exports and is suspected of being a Korean spy. Sumimoto takes Kaori into custody for collaboration and eventually enlists her help to uncover...
- 3/26/2012
- Nippon Cinema
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