The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang.
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Japan · 2019
2h 17m
Director Joe Odagiri
Starring Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijiro Murakami, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Genre Drama
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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.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
It’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang.
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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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