Variety
Such is the finesse of Kore-eda's script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees.
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After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku)
After the death of his father, a private detective with a punishing gambling habit attempts to reconnect with his mother, ex-wife and, most crucially, his young son in this Japanese drama from the director of the sublime Our Little Sister.
Ryoto (Abe Hiroshi) used to be a novelist, but now he's a private detective scraping together the cash to fund his gambling habit, never mind child support. Stranded at his family home during a storm, Ryoto attempts to make amends with his ex-wife and son in this bittersweet tale that screened in the Un Certain Regard programme at Cannes Film Festival 2016.
2016Rating: M, Low level violence, Nudity117 minsJapanJapanese with English subtitles
DramaWorld CinemaFestival & Independent
- Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda ('I Wish', 'Like Father, Like Son', 'Our Little Sister')
- Writer:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Hiroshi AbeYôko MakiTaiyô YoshizawaKirin KikiSatomi KobayashiSosuke IkematsuLily FrankyIsao Hashizume
After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) / Reviews
The Telegraph
Even long-standing fans of the Japanese filmmaker might be taken aback by the supreme subtlety of his latest, achingly beautiful ode to the quiet complexities of family life.
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Kore-eda looks sensitively at the deep roots of unquenched anguish, but he constructs the characters too neatly and the situations too precisely for the drama to seem like anything but a well-meaning lesson.
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Stuff
Filmed and assembled with such wit, economy and precision that nothing in the film is allowed to detract from the absolute perfection of the writing and the performances.
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Los Angeles Times
A sublimely simple family drama from the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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Hollywood Reporter
The filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you.
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