After the Storm (2016)
(Umi yori mo mada fukaku)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa
Synopsis:
Having resorted to working for a private detective agency to pay for his gambling habit, a one-time prize-winning novelist uses his time to follow his wife and son's movements. Things come to a head during a typhoon, when the three find themselves staying the night with his neglected mother in her cramped apartment: his ex-wife has moved on, but he very clearly has not.
Review:
You could view this as another of Koreeda's family chamber dramas, and a typically inconsequential one at that. Or you could see it as a critique of the feckless Japanese male, spoilt by his mother, addicted to gambling, and incapable of holding down a relationship of parity with the modern, educated and industrious female.
(Umi yori mo mada fukaku)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa
Synopsis:
Having resorted to working for a private detective agency to pay for his gambling habit, a one-time prize-winning novelist uses his time to follow his wife and son's movements. Things come to a head during a typhoon, when the three find themselves staying the night with his neglected mother in her cramped apartment: his ex-wife has moved on, but he very clearly has not.
Review:
You could view this as another of Koreeda's family chamber dramas, and a typically inconsequential one at that. Or you could see it as a critique of the feckless Japanese male, spoilt by his mother, addicted to gambling, and incapable of holding down a relationship of parity with the modern, educated and industrious female.
(Umi yori mo mada fukaku)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa
Synopsis:
Having resorted to working for a private detective agency to pay for his gambling habit, a one-time prize-winning novelist uses his time to follow his wife and son's movements. Things come to a head during a typhoon, when the three find themselves staying the night with his neglected mother in her cramped apartment: his ex-wife has moved on, but he very clearly has not.
Review:
You could view this as another of Koreeda's family chamber dramas, and a typically inconsequential one at that. Or you could see it as a critique of the feckless Japanese male, spoilt by his mother, addicted to gambling, and incapable of holding down a relationship of parity with the modern, educated and industrious female.