An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
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- 10 wins & 10 nominations
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- TriviaRyuhei goes to Hello Work to seek help finding a job. Hello Work is a Japanese government agency that tries to help people looking for employment.
- GoofsLate in the movie the Mother lies on the beach allowing the ocean to wash over her. In her next scenes her clothes appear completely dry. Even allowing for the time she had to get home her clothes would still be damp and very uncomfortable to wear.
- Quotes
Megumi Sasaki: How wonderful it would be if my whole life so far turns out to have been a dream, and suddenly I wake up and I'm someone else entirely.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Forget Me Not (2015)
- SoundtracksClaire de Lune
Composed by Claude Debussy
Featured review
At first I thought this film would be a depressing story to watch, but I was surprised that the film was actually very uplifting. Although it's a sad story overall, it has a very powerful message if you watch it to the end, a message that will encourage you to move on even when life gets to its darkest moment.
This story is about problems of people in Tokyo, all sorts of problems. The leader of the family lose their job and was afraid to tell his family, the elder son join American army and go to war, the younger son wants to learn the piano but the father forbids him, the wife is depressed of trying to hold the family together. The film is so delicate and beautiful. It captures the feeling of each character and the whole depressive atmosphere of Tokyo very well. The pace is slow but it's not boring because you can follow the story very easily and you can sympathize with each one of the characters. It doesn't even have any Hollywood boring formula of sentimental film. This is a real work of art.
I'm not gonna spoil this movie. I just want to tell you to go watch this film and watch it to the end although you feel that it's getting darker and darker. For me, this is not another good movie. This is a "great" movie because after I watch it, I feel that now I can go on with my life.
This story is about problems of people in Tokyo, all sorts of problems. The leader of the family lose their job and was afraid to tell his family, the elder son join American army and go to war, the younger son wants to learn the piano but the father forbids him, the wife is depressed of trying to hold the family together. The film is so delicate and beautiful. It captures the feeling of each character and the whole depressive atmosphere of Tokyo very well. The pace is slow but it's not boring because you can follow the story very easily and you can sympathize with each one of the characters. It doesn't even have any Hollywood boring formula of sentimental film. This is a real work of art.
I'm not gonna spoil this movie. I just want to tell you to go watch this film and watch it to the end although you feel that it's getting darker and darker. For me, this is not another good movie. This is a "great" movie because after I watch it, I feel that now I can go on with my life.
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $278,356
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,345
- Mar 15, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $943,547
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