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Still Walking(歩いても 歩いても)

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Japan · 2008
1h 54m
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yui Natsukawa, Yoshio Harada
Genre Drama, Family

Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time.

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What are people saying?

Meagen Tajalle Profile picture for Meagen Tajalle

Kore-eda stated in an interview about Shoplifters that he wanted to further explore the question that prompted his previous film Like Father, Like Son. That question was: What makes a family? It seems that that question permeates all of Kore-eda's films, even this one, which precedes both aforementioned works. This film is delicate and masterfully acted. It is incredibly compelling without venturing into melodrama.

What are critics saying?

80

The Hollywood Reporter by

Kore-eda listens to his characters' inner thoughts with the attentiveness of a piano tuner, and reveals them with the lightest inferences.

90

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Its modest surface belies the depths of a lovely seriocomedy that concisely lays bare all kinds of uncomfortable dynamics in seemingly casual, low-key fashion.

80

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

An usually insightful rendering of an ordinary family, Hirokazu Kore-eda's contemplative Japanese drama is the sort of movie that makes its greatest impact long after you've seen it.

80

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

This is life as it’s lived, not dreamed. And this is a family bound not only by sorrow, but also by a shared history that emerges in 114 calibrated minutes and ends with a wallop.

90

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Quite aside from Shinto transformation parables or Buddhist reincarnation teachings, the final scene shows how family wisdom is conserved and recycled. It's a moment that might elicit a smile or a tear, or perhaps both.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Painful family issues are more likely to stay beneath the surface, known to everyone but not spoken of. Still Walking, a magnificent new film from Japan, is very wise about that, and very true.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Koreeda, talented director that he is, never allows the story to sink into soap-opera melodrama, and he refrains from pointing fingers.

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