After the death of his father, a private detective with a punishing gambling habit attempts to reconnect with his mother,...
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.
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81 %1,881 reviewsAudience score rating
"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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Variety
Variety"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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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"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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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"It's a film that sticks with you."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"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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Stuff
Stuff"A sublimely simple family drama from the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"The filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"...touching, subtle,deftly and minutely observed..."
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FilmInk
FilmInkAfter the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) | Details
- Rating
- M, Low level violence, Nudity
- Runtime
- 117
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Japan
