Japan | 2008
114 minutes
Director/Screenplay/Editor: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Producers: Kato Yoshihiro, Taguchi Hijiri
Photography: Yamazaki Yutaka
Production designers: Isomi Toshihiro, Mitsumatsu Keiko
Costume designer: Kurosawa Kazuko
Music: Gontiti
With: Abe Hiroshi, Natsukawa Yui, You, Takahashi Kazuya, Takana Shohei, Kiki Kirin, Harada Yoshio
Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastian, Vancouver, Pusan, London 2008; San Francisco, New Zealand 2009
In Japanese with English subtitles
Censors rating G certificate
Since featuring at last year’s NZIFF, this quiet, richly perceptive family drama has been nominated by critics around the world as one of 2009’s best films.
“What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s seventh feature film and one every bit as sensitive as his previous triumphs After Life and Nobody Knows, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential clichés – the grouchy elderly father, the disenfranchised second son – Kore-eda imbues the story with such specificity, tactility, and humanity that yet another movie about a dysfunctional family reunion becomes a cinematic tone poem.” — Anthony Kaufman, Village Voice.
“A supremely subtle portrayal of the tensions within a Japanese family puts Kore-eda in the same league as his country’s masters.” — Trevor Johnson, Sight & Sound
“Moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety… we are in the presence of a new classic.” —Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark
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