| Tuesday 27th April at 8 p.m. |
| Still Walking / Aruitemo aruitemo |
| Japan 2008 | 114 mins | U |
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In modern day rural Japan, a family gathers to commemorate the tragic death of eldest son Junpei in a drowning accident fifteen years earlier. Second son Ryota dislikes these reunions, in part because of the manner in which Junpei was always favoured by his father and his parents’ lingering belief that the wrong son died that day. The latest film from Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda, director of fabulous 1998 transcendental fantasy After Life (Wandâfuru raifu), is a beautifully observed and poignant study of family, loss, inter-generational differences and how our relationships and perceptions of others change over time. |
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Hirokazu Koreeda
Hirokazu Koreeda was born in Tokyo in 1962 who abandoned his original plan to be a novelist after graduation from Waseda University in 1987. He began his film career as an assistant director in television and made his first feature film, Maboroshi no hikari / Maborosi (1995), which won a number of international awards, including Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. He followed this with the documentary Without Memory ((1996) and the spelbinding fantasy After Life / Wandâfuru raifu (1998, screened by us in a previous season), once again a multiple award winner, particularly in the Best Film category. His subsequent films have been Distance (2001), Nobody Knows / Dare mo shiranai (2004) and Hana yori mo naho (2206), none of which have been widely seen in the UK. The 2008 Still Walking / Aruitemo aruitemo has been met with widespread acclaim and has again proved a big award winner at festivals around the world. Koreeda's latest film is Kûki ningyô / Air Doll, the offbeat but poignant story of a life-sized blow-up doll that develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
Watch the Still Walking trailer
Read the DVD Outsider review of Koreeda's After Life / Wandâfuru raifu
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| Hirokazu Koreeda |
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| Hiroshi Abe |
| Yui Natsukawa |
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| Kazuya Takahashi |
| Shohei Tanaka |
| Kirin Kiki |
| Yoshio Harada |
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