Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
JP
Genres:
Drama
Release:
April 2012
Production:
Shochiku
Cast:
Koji Yakusho, Kirin Kiki, Aoi Miyazaki, Kaho Minami, Midoriko Kimura, Mimura, Akiko Kikuchi, Takahiro Miura, Erina Mano, Rentaro Mikuni, Kumiko Ito, Harumi Shuhama, Tomomi Satô, Makoto Hada, Akihiro Ugajin, Mayu Hiratsuka, Koji Seki, Mariko Akama, Hiroyuki Fujii, Zenki Aramaki
Tags:
based on memoir or autobiography, semi autobiographical, emotionally distant, forgetfulness
