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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang.
They Say Nothing Stays the Same (ある船頭の話)
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- Japan
- 2019
- · 137m
Director
Joe Odagiri
Cast
Akira Emoto,
Ririka Kawashima,
Nijiro Murakami,
Tsuyoshi Ihara,
Tadanobu Asano,
Jun Murakami
Genre
Drama
Toichi is a boatman who ferries villagers to a town on the other side of a river, but his livelihood is being threatened by the creation of a bridge upstream. While unsure of his future, he must also deal with caring for a young girl he rescued from the river.
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75
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
They Say Nothing Stays the Same is a melodramatic, stately and beautiful Japanese period piece.
75
Original-Cin by Karen Gordon
Odagiri doesn’t give us many answers. They Say Nothing Stays the Same is enigmatic and, in some ways, frustratingly elusive, yet also affecting.
50
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The landscape can go only so far in expressing Toichi’s mind-set, and the movie turns hokey when it dramatizes Toichi’s inner thoughts.
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