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Movie Info

A young man must turn to family to have a future.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    Japanese
  • Director:
    Shinji Aoyama
  • Runtime:
  • Production Co:
    Stylejam Inc.

Cast & Crew

Tadanobu Asano
Kenji Shiraishi
Eri Ishida
Chiyoko Mamiya
Yuka Itaya
Saeko Shiina
Yusuke Kawazu
Kijima
Shinji Aoyama
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  • Only those already won over by recent Shinji Aoyama will coddle to Sad Vacation, the prolific helmer's latest overlong, confused meditation on family and abandonment.

    July 9, 2008 | Full Review…

    Jay Weissberg

    Variety

  • There's something willfully obscurantist about Sad Vacation, as if it is, first and foremost, a private joke between writer/director Shinji Aoyama and his performers.

    July 9, 2008

    Keith Uhlich

    UGO

  • An almost Capraesque folksy moralism takes root, but the ramshackle story keeps shifting gears awkwardly.

    October 12, 2018 | Full Review…

    Dan Sallitt

    Senses of Cinema
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