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After the Storm(海よりもまだ深く)

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Japan · 2016
1h 57m
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yoko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa
Genre Drama

Ryota is a troubled ex-writer turned private detective. He lives divorced from his ex-wife, Kyoko, and away from his 11-year-old son, Shingo. One night, in an effort to make amends, Ryota arranges a meeting between himself, Kyoko, and Shingo in his mother's apartment. Instead of a brief meeting, a typhoon passes, forcing the family to stay together all night long.

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100

Village Voice by Bilge Ebiri

I walked out of After the Storm wanting to be a better person — and further convinced that Hirokazu Kore-eda isn't just one of the world's best filmmakers, but one of its most indispensable artists.

90

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

This bittersweet peek into the human comedy has a more subtle charm than flashier films like the director’s child-swapping fable Like Father, Like Son, but the filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you.

90

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Mr. Kore-eda, whose most noteworthy family dramas include “Still Walking” (2009) and “Like Father, Like Son” (2014), works in a quiet cinematic register, and the slightest error in tone could upend the whole enterprise. Slow-paced, sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny, After the Storm is one of his sturdiest, and most sensitive, constructions.

83

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

After the Storm is a film that invites you in, and clears a space for you at the dinner table while you shuck off your shoes in the hallway.

80

Variety by Maggie Lee

Such is the finesse of Kore-eda’s script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees. Instead, it imparts those rare, liberating moments when characters revert to their most honest selves and pluck up the courage to express their deepest, albeit unattainable wishes.

100

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

No director working today observes family life with such delicacy and care, or is so unstintingly generous with what they find.

100

The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor

This is Kore-eda at his very best, facing up to the hardest truths with honesty and a nervous laugh — uncomfortable, invigorating, and ultimately cleansing, like the cinema’s equivalent of a cold shower. And I mean that in the best way possible.

80

Screen International by Wendy Ide

Like Kore-eda’s 2008 family drama Still Walking, this is a film which is interested in the architecture, both emotional and physical, of the family home.

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