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Hanging Garden

Original title: Kûchû teien
  • 20052005
  • 1h 54m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
899
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Kyôko Koizumi in Hanging Garden (2005)
Drama
A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
899
YOUR RATING
    • Toshiaki Toyoda
    • Mitsuyo Kakuta(novel "Kûchû teien")
    • Toshiaki Toyoda(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kyôko Koizumi
    • Anne Suzuki
    • Itsuji Itao
    • Toshiaki Toyoda
    • Mitsuyo Kakuta(novel "Kûchû teien")
    • Toshiaki Toyoda(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kyôko Koizumi
    • Anne Suzuki
    • Itsuji Itao
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    • 4User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    Kyôko Koizumi
    Kyôko Koizumi
    • Eriko Kyobashi
    Anne Suzuki
    Anne Suzuki
    • Mana Kyobashi
    • (as An Suzuki)
    Itsuji Itao
    Itsuji Itao
    • Takashi Kyobashi
    Masahiro Hirota
    • Ko Kyobashi
    Jun Kunimura
    Jun Kunimura
    • Eriko's brother
    Eita Nagayama
    Eita Nagayama
    • Tezuka
    • (as Eita)
    Asami Imajuku
    • Sacchin
    Ryô Katsuji
    Ryô Katsuji
    • Morisaki
    Sonim
    • Mina
    • (as Sonin)
    Hiromi Nagasaku
    • Asako Iizuka
    Michiyo Yasuda
    Michiyo Yasuda
    • Satoko Kinosaki
    • (as Michiyo Ohkusu)
    Seiji Chihara
    Seiroku Nakazawa
    Kiyohiko Shibukawa
    Shinsuke Suzuki
    Yoshitaka Yamamoto
      • Toshiaki Toyoda
      • Mitsuyo Kakuta(novel "Kûchû teien")
      • Toshiaki Toyoda(screenplay)
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      Ko Kyobashi: Teacher Mina, when they built that housing project, did they think, if all the windows were the same size and faced south at the same angle, that they'd all get the same sunlight and everyone would be equally happy?

      Mina: What are you talking about? That's for drying laundry.

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    9/10
    An intelligent and individual film-maker
    Toshiaki Toyoda's latest is a definite departure from his previous films about young Japanese men on the fringes of society suffering from alienation and ennui. This time he adapts a novel about a Japanese family whose motto is "keep no secrets from each other, be ashamed of nothing". The main character is the mother, played by excellent actress Kyôko Koizumi, with father, daughter, son and grandmother making up the rest of the unit.

    Toyoda explained that the "Hanging Garden" is both a reference to Babylon and the "rootlessness" of Japanese society (plants in a hanging garden cannot extend their roots into the soil). The film features some very unusual and mesmerising camera work, such as having the camera swing as if in a hanging basket.

    The film is complex and rich, defying easy description or summary. Suffice to say that the families adherence to their creed turns out to be less than absolute.

    HANGING GARDEN is Toyoda's most successful movie in Japan (by quite a long way, I would imagine), capturing a female audience his earlier films could never have hoped to reach, as well as appealing to older generations of cinema-goers. Toyoda's intelligence, his deep understanding of characters and actors and his confidence in forging his own cinematic language are all brought to a new level with this film, though it loses some "coolness" as a trade-off. The film does have the same kind of subtle development as 9 SOULS, where scenes and events build layer upon layer like the composition of a painter, but for me the end result didn't reach quite the same level of awe-inspiration. Perhaps because my expectations were higher this time around, perhaps because I can relate less to the central character than any of the 9 protagonists of his last film.

    Still, Toyoda has again proved himself to be a smarter and more individual film-maker than the vast majority of his peers.
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      • July 6, 2010 (United States)
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      • Asahi National Broadcasting Company
      • Asmik Ace Entertainment
      • Culture Publishers (CP)
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    • 1 hour 54 minutes
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