Still Walking

Aruitemo, Aruitemo

(Japan, 114 mins)

35mm

Executive Producers: Kazumi Kawashiro, Yutaka Shigenobu, Takeo Hisamatsu, Bong-ou Lee
Producers: Yoshihiro Kato, Hijiri Taguchi
Screenwriter: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamazaki
Editor: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki, Yoshio Harada
Music: Gontiti

Old resentments and new tensions seep to the surface at the Yokoyama clan’s annual reunion on the anniversary of eldest son Junpei’s premature death. Churlish patriarch Kyohei and manically active matriarch Toshiko have never gotten over Junpei’s drowning, a fact painfully bovious totheir surviving children. Their surviving son Ryo and his new wife Yukari are continually reminded that his parents think he’s a failure in comparison to lost star Junpei, while ditzy daughter Chinami, her laidback husband, and their energetic children just want to ride out the visit. Nobody likes this ritual—yet they’ve repeated it for fifteen years.

Training his precise, painterly gaze on a single fraught day in one family’s life, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s quietly poetic new film is a rich, complex portrayal of the ties that bind parents and their adult children. Reminiscent of Yasusiro Ozu’s understated masterpieces, nothing “big” happens as the Yokoyamas cook, eat, nap, and visit the gravesite. Kore-eda’s intimate focus on seemingly casual conversation, fleeting expressions, and rare admissions, though, becomes a compelling and often humorously insightful study of the unresolved conflicts constantly simmering within even the most dutiful families.

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