Still Walking
2008 ‧ Drama/Family ‧ 1h 55m
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei (Yoshio Harada) and Toshiko (Kirin Kiki) welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) still feels...
Release date: August 28, 2009 (USA)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Distributed by: IFC Films
Language: Japanese
Music by: Gontiti
Production company: CineQuanon
Rating
(18,768)
Kore-eda tells this poignant story masterfully, with restraint and simplicity, and the cast is strong from top to bottom (Kirin Kiki as the mom, and Hiroshi Abe ...
Still Walking is a 2008 Japanese film edited, written, and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film is a portrait of a family over roughly 24 hours as they ...
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Is Still Walking a good movie?
Beautiful timing, contemplation of the most and least pleasant moments, regrets, dashed hopes and misunderstandings: "Still walking" is a perfect portrait of family pain. Content collapsed. Very few films capture the truth of life's eventuality as it really is with all its boredom, tragedy, and acceptance of destiny.
Is Still Walking Based on a true story?
Still Walking, Kore-eda's most personal work, has strong elements of autobiography. He has said that he made it in response to the death of his mother, whom he nursed toward the end of her life, and the film is full of personalizing details, the sense memories of childhood.
What is the movie Still Walking about?
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei (Yoshio Harada) and Toshiko (Kirin Kiki) welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari (Yui Natsukawa), is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami (You) strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
Still Walking / Film synopsis
Where does still walking take place?
Set in and around the Yokoyama family home in the seaside city of Yokohama, Still Walking revolves around Yokoyama Junpei's death.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2008 drama Still Walking is a masterfully directed, emotionally nuanced expression of the love, heartbreak and comfort within family ...