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Still Walking

Original title: Aruitemo aruitemo
  • 20082008
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
17K
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Still Walking (2008)
Drama
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
17K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
  • Writer
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu(original story)
  • Stars
    • Hiroshi Abe
    • Yui Natsukawa
    • You
  • Director
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
  • Writer
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu(original story)
  • Stars
    • Hiroshi Abe
    • Yui Natsukawa
    • You
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 47User reviews
    • 133Critic reviews
    • 89Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 8 nominations

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    Hiroshi Abe and Kirin Kiki in Still Walking (2008)
    Still Walking (2008)
    Still Walking (2008)
    Hiroshi Abe and Yui Natsukawa in Still Walking (2008)
    Yoshio Harada and Kirin Kiki in Still Walking (2008)
    Hiroshi Abe and Yoshio Harada in Still Walking (2008)
    Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, and Shohei Tanaka in Still Walking (2008)
    Yui Natsukawa and Shohei Tanaka in Still Walking (2008)
    Kirin Kiki in Still Walking (2008)
    Hiroshi Abe and Shohei Tanaka in Still Walking (2008)
    Kirin Kiki in Still Walking (2008)
    Yui Natsukawa in Still Walking (2008)

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    Hiroshi Abe
    Hiroshi Abe
    • Ryota Yokoyama
    Yui Natsukawa
    Yui Natsukawa
    • Yukari Yokoyama
    You
    You
    • Chinami Kataoka
    Kazuya Takahashi
    • Nobuo Kataoka
    Shohei Tanaka
    Shohei Tanaka
    • Atsushi Yokoyama
    Kirin Kiki
    Kirin Kiki
    • Toshiko Yokoyama
    Yoshio Harada
    Yoshio Harada
    • Kyohei Yokoyama
    Ryôga Hayashi
    • Mutsu Kataoka
    Haruko Katô
    Haruko Katô
    Hotaru Nomoto
    • Satsuki Kataoka
    Susumu Terajima
    Susumu Terajima
    • Sushi deliverer
    • Director
      • Kore-eda Hirokazu
    • Writer
      • Kore-eda Hirokazu(original story) (screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      In a 2009 interview, Koreeda stated that Still Walking was based on his own family.
    • Quotes

      Atsushi Yokoyama: There's nothing to watch on TV these days. They laugh so loud but nothing's funny.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Il était une fois...: Une affaire de famille (2021)
    • Soundtracks
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    User reviews47

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    Featured review
    10/10
    Family - for you, me, and everyone we know...
    Koreeda's Aruite Mo Aruite Mo is a consideration of family that is part homage, part vivisection. The comparisons to Ozu that have been made are fitting, the film a return to the Golden Age of Japanese film-making when a distinctly Japanese setting was employed to convey universal themes. The domestic setting, limited time-frame, and even knee-high camera placement all deliberately connote Ozu, but not so much to bow before him, as to re-invent him, to update or even evolve the form. Koreeda seems to have set out less to pay his respects to Ozu, as to surpass him.

    Ryota brings his new wife and stepson home to to meet his family on the anniversary of his older brother Junpei's passing. The cycle of pettiness, accusation, pouting and recrimination soon kicks in, familiar theatre of family that will have people recalling Thanksgiving get-togethers, Hogmanany parties, Christmas fall-outs... The joy is in the details of Koreeda's observations, and the forceful animation of them by the cast. From the opening conversation between mother and daughter, playful banter on lessons never learned, wisdom refused, the tone of interdependence with tense undercurrents is set.

    YOU as Chinami is more straightforward than her mis-maternal role in Nobody Knows, angling to move in with her parents by talking to her mother as a type, rather than as a person. Kirin Kiki is best known these days here in Japan for her comic outing in the Fuji film commercials. She excels there and here, sweet and doddering at one point, and yet scary, almost vicious at others, as when she reveals the depth of her loathing for Yoshio, the boy-now-man whom her son Junpei died saving from drowning. Her cool gaze upon her grandchildren is evidence of Koreeda's consummate ease in avoiding sentimentality. Hiroshi Abe holds up his end more than competently as the brooding Ryota. Recently 're-structured', he finds his conflicting roles as failed breadwinner, failed heir, struggling stepfather and less-favoured son all brought to salience in this one event. He is too proud to admit his jobless status, but not man enough to help his wife carry the bags. He reacts just as his father reacts to the shock of retirement, or his mother reacts to facing life's disappointments - by lashing out. He is a grown man in gaudy cheap pajamas bought by his mum. He competes with not one ghost, but two - his brother, and his wife's first husband. Who can shine in comparison with martyrs?

    Families can be joyous and awful, and Koreeda captures that to a tee. The film seems to go on a beat too long, past a line on the bus that seems the natural ending, but then the final narration (reminiscent of Twilight Samurai) and graveside scene pull it all together poignantly. Granddad thinks they will be back at New Year - they won't. Chinami thinks her mother wants them to move in - she doesn't. Yoshio thinks he is welcome every year - he isn't. Families are destined to misunderstand each other. And yet the honouring of Junpei, the father cracking water-melons with his children, Granddad reaching out to his step-grandson - the succour of family is also portrayed here.

    No one does bitter-sweet and elegiac quite like Koreeda, and in Aruite Mo Aruite Mo he achieves the quintessential mix that he was arguably striving for in After Life and Maboroshi. This is a film both comforting and challenging, that may just turn out to be Koreeda's masterpiece.
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    • LunarPoise
    • May 31, 2010

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 28, 2008 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Offcial Site
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Even If You Walk and Walk
    • Filming locations
      • Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Bandai Visual Company
      • Cinequanon
      • Eisei Gekijo
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $167,047
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $20,298
      • Aug 30, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,511,120
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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