Credited cast: | |||
Teruyuki Kagawa | ... | Ryûhei Sasaki | |
Kyôko Koizumi | ... | Megumi Sasaki | |
Yû Koyanagi | ... | Takashi Sasaki | |
Kai Inowaki | ... | Kenji Sasaki | |
Haruka Igawa | ... | Kaneko-san The Piano Teacher | |
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Kanji Tsuda | ... | Kurosu |
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Kazuya Kojima | ... | Kobayashi-san |
Kôji Yakusho | ... | Dorobô The Robber | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Faisal Ahmed | ... | Train Conductor |
Denden | ... | Janitor | |
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Jason Gray | ... | Amerika no ashigaru |
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Hajime Inoue | ||
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Masayuki Ito | ||
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Kenji Kawahara | ||
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Toshiyuki Kitami |
The wind of change is blowing as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it is just the beginning of a series of family shattering incidents leading to the implosion of the family unit. Written by aghaemi
At first I thought this film would be a depressing story to watch, but I was surprised that the film was actually very uplifting. Although it's a sad story overall, it has a very powerful message if you watch it to the end, a message that will encourage you to move on even when life gets to its darkest moment.
This story is about problems of people in Tokyo, all sorts of problems. The leader of the family lose their job and was afraid to tell his family, the elder son join American army and go to war, the younger son wants to learn the piano but the father forbids him, the wife is depressed of trying to hold the family together. The film is so delicate and beautiful. It captures the feeling of each character and the whole depressive atmosphere of Tokyo very well. The pace is slow but it's not boring because you can follow the story very easily and you can sympathize with each one of the characters. It doesn't even have any Hollywood boring formula of sentimental film. This is a real work of art.
I'm not gonna spoil this movie. I just want to tell you to go watch this film and watch it to the end although you feel that it's getting darker and darker. For me, this is not another good movie. This is a "great" movie because after I watch it, I feel that now I can go on with my life.