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7.6/10
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A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.
- Awards
- 16 wins & 2 nominations
Rinko Kikuchi
- Waitress At Noodle Shop
- (as Yuriko Kikuchi)
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An ordinary Japanese family full of extraordinary people.
A truly beautiful film full of wonderful imagery and comic moments that made the almost 2 and a half hours fly past. It really needs to be seen in a cinema where you can totally integrate yourself in the atmosphere and you feel like a fly on the wall, watching the family and their situations without interrupting their flow. Visually nature plays a huge role, not just the human side of it (which is simple and uncomplicated) but the countryside, the river, the wind, the cherry blossoms, the rain etc etc. It really is beautifully filmed and the characters are all very touching, very funny and very normal really (except perhaps the psychedelic singing uncle),in their own quirky little ways. There isn't a real story line, we just follow the family over a seemingly short period of time. Some moments in the film may seem relevant and some may not, but they all do seem to fit in somewhere along the way and they are all such a pleasure to watch. I came out of the cinema feeling as though my karma was on a high and I still do.
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