Still Walking captures the pleasures and disappointments of everyday life in a Japanese family. I saw this Japanese film Still Walking by director Hirokazu Kore-eda at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York www.cinemartscentre.org. Three generations gather to commemorate the death of the oldest son of a doctor and his wife, a home-maker. What happened unfolds gradually as revelations come about matter of factly rather than portentously. The second son is estranged from his father whose career path he did not follow.
Set neither in a big city nor the countryside it avoids the cliches of such settings.
Having visited Japan and been fascinated with its culture since I was small, I was interested by the slices of everyday life exposed in this film rather than fantasy or politics or the sweep of history commonly seen in Japanese films shown in the West.
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