Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) (2008)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 0
Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell.
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 0
Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell.
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Director Hirokazu Kore-eda writes and directs this family drama that unfolds over the course of a single summer day as the Yokoyama family gathers for a rare reunion held to commemorate the death of the one who was taken before his time. It was 15 years ago that eldest Yokoyama son, Junpei, drowned in a tragic accident, and the only changes around the family home since that fateful day are so subtle that they're not likely to be noticed by anyone outside of the immediate family. Retired family
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Hiroshi Abe
Ryota Yokoyama -
Yoshio Harada
Kyohei Yokoyama -
Yui Natsukawa
Yukari Yokoyama -
Kazuya Takahashi
Nobuo Kataoka -
Shohei Tanaka
Atsushi Yokoyama -
Hotaru Nomoto
Satsuki Kataoka -
Ryôga Hayashi
Mutsu Kataoka -
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Chinami Kataoka -
Kirin Kiki
Toshiko Yokoyama -
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Susumu Terajima
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (0) | DVD (4)
Koreeda's almost sage-like understanding of what makes modern families tick places him and this wonderful film in the league of Japan's grand master, Ozu, and you can't ask for higher praise than that.
Top CriticStill Walking strikes an extraordinary balance between the moment-to-moment pleasure of life and the inevitable regret that accompanies time's passing.
This masterful family drama by Japanese writer- director Hirokazu Kore-eda commences on a deceptively tranquil note, lightly spiced with a needling humor.
Pitch-perfect and profoundly moving...
The tone is perfect; this is one of those rare films that, despite being rooted firmly in the world around us, is utterly absorbing and capable of reducing the immediacies of life into abstract thoughts in the back of one's mind.
Though [Koreeda] has made a film of droll and dry observational precision, its emotional minimalism is almost fetishistic -- and, by the end, a tad frustrating.
Still Walking is so uncommonly and beautifully perceptive about how families interact that it feels as natural as putting one foot in front of the next.
Taking place over little more than a day in the life of a family, Kore-eda's film locates the profound in the mundane. [Blu-ray]
The absence of loved ones and what we imagine our loved ones will become fuels the subtle delights of Still Walking, Hirokazu Kore-da's grounded yet graceful contemplation of the Japanese family in transition.
It's about what it means to be a family, with all of the joy and disappointment that comprises, and if Still Walking doesn't say anything particularly new on the subject, at least what it does say is said profoundly well.
Koreeda makes it worth our while to watch these people, allowing us to dig for nuggets of information, piecing them together, and learning something about the resilience of family bonds along the way.
A delicate, devastating Japanese tragicomedy.
while this film is full of all the bitterness, regret, jealousy, disappointment, deceit and awkward love that make up any family, it depicts these with a calm restraint and subtlety, excluding even the slightest hint of melodrama
Subtle and multi-layered film-making with compelling performances.
A beautifully measured melodrama that owes much to Yasujiro Ozu's Japanese classic Tokyo Story.
This is a higher order of storytelling, and this gentle, lovely film is impossible to watch without a lump in the throat.
An acutely observed and tenderly rendered portrait of family, mortality and remembering.
Koreeda's big theme is the transience of all our lives, but he doesn't make a meal of it. Instead, he essays a moving restraint that evokes Ozu's vintage domestic dramas - no mean feat.
Full of the small revelations that make up everyone's memories and regrets. It is beautifully acted too.
utaka Yamazaki's photography and Gontiti's guitar score are as impeccable as the performances, but it's Koreeda's delicacy, wit and insight that makes this so intricate, poignant and truthful.
Limpidly shot, translucently acted, Still Walking steals up on you quietly and stays with you forever.
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Foreign Titles
- Still Walking (DE)
- Still Walking (Aruitemo, aruitemo) (UK)
