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Still Walking

2008, Drama, 1h 54m

64 Reviews 2,500+ Ratings

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Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell. Read critic reviews

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(L-R) Kirin Kiki as Toshiko and Hiroshi Abe as Ryota in "Still Walking." photo 12

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(L-R) Hiroshi Abe as Ryota, Shohei Tanaka as Yukari's son and Yui Natsukawa as Yukari in "Still Walking." photo 14

(L-R) Yoshio Harada as Kyohei, Shohei Tanaka as Yukari's son and Kirin Kiki as Toshiko in "Still Walking." photo 15

(L-R) Yui Natsukawa as Yukari and Hiroshi Abe as Ryota in "Still Walking." photo 16

(L-R) Yui Natsukawa as Yukari, Kirin Kiki as Toshiko, Shohei Tanaka as Yukari's son and Hiroshi Abe as Ryota in "Still Walking." photo 17

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Movie Info

Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei (Yoshio Harada) and Toshiko (Kirin Kiki) welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari (Yui Natsukawa), is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami (You) strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.

Genre:

Drama
Original Language:

Japanese
Director:

Hirokazu Koreeda
Producer:

Yoshihiro Kato, Satoshi Kono, Hijiri Taguchi, Masahiro Yasuda
Writer:

Hirokazu Koreeda
Release Date (Theaters):

Aug 28, 2009 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 8, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA):

$163.5K
Runtime:

1h 54m
Distributor:

IFC Films

Cast & Crew

Hiroshi Abe
Ryota Yokoyama

You
Chinami Kataoka

Yoshio Harada

Yoshio Harada
Kyohei Yokoyama

Ryôga Hayashi

Ryôga Hayashi
Mutsu Kataoka

Haruko Kato

Haruko Kato

Kirin Kiki
Toshiko Yokoyama

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Audience Reviews for Still Walking

Sep 10, 2011

Still Walking is a subtly beautiful film-making that revels in its simplicity in presenting complex honest emotions. Fine visual artistry. Gently tense that delivers a calm delight.

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Feb 27, 2011

Japanese drama by HIROKAZU KOREEDA ( MABOROSI, AFTER LIFE, AIR DOLL). Son and daughter return home to their aging parents for a day to commemorate their dead brother.Beautifully scripted and acted, the film shows the nuances of family life, the niggles, the needs, the discomfort, the secrets, all done so delicately you barely realise a conversation about music is really about some long-past infidelity or why two grown-ups are squabbling about a pair of pyjamas. This had me laughing out loud at times at the truth of it all. For anyone who's ever felt ambivalent about being visiting the folks back home. <img src="http://www.dvdfile.com/images/stories/upl_images/Still%20Walking%20-%20BD/still6.jpg">

Lesley N Super Reviewer
Feb 11, 2010

The Japanese movie Still Walking, a beautiful family drama, about a son, visiting his parents on the fifteenth anniversary of his brothers death, he drowned while saving another boy. The acting was extremely good as I was used to see in Japanese movies. I think that these actors could have done this movie without a script, so real and so natural they did come over. There was still bitterness, grief and also selfishness ,which was the central subject of the movie.The movie had many emotional surprises,showed with a light touch. It was about family, love and regret and it was like real life story.

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Dec 13, 2009

Deeply observant, naturalistic family drama about a son and his new wife returning home on the anniversary of his older brother's death. A simple and moving tale of a family dealing with old wounds and every day problems, and of children and their parents, both old and young. Yasujiro Ozu would have been proud.

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