Still Walking is a miracle.
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Still Walking is a 2008 Japanese film edited, written, and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film is a portrait of a family over roughly 24 hours as they gather together in remembrance of a day that changed all of their lives. 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.
Available to view in the Criterion Collection.
Intro music: "Fretless" by Kevin MacLeod, • (No Copyright Music) F...
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Apparently you can watch the movie in full here: youtube com/watch?v=0AKtnmECPcM
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on working with Kirin Kiki, who portrays the matriarch in the film (who in turn was based in part on Kore-eda's own mother): "When I wrote the script for Still Walking, I had just lost my mother. And I think maybe I was partially juxtaposing Kirin-san with my mother. And she had just lost a trusted director, who she worked with a lot. So I think we'd both lost someone important to us, right at the start of our working relationship together...
"You said that it's beautiful, it's not, really. She would come and see me and say, 'Oh did you see so-and-so's new film, isn't it awful?' and she'd spend two hours complaining about someone else's film. She liked talking about who's got divorced, how much they're paying.Whose plastic surgery has gone terribly wrong. Real estate, money, rumors... And then that turned into talking about her theory of acting, and her theory of film. And it was always really good fun talking with her, and sharing a meal with her. So basically we spent a lot of time badmouthing other people. So it wasn't really beautiful... I guess in that sense, she really was a kind of replacement mother figure."
On what films influenced him as a child: "the films I was watching at the time were with my mother, who really loved films. We weren't in a place economically where we could go to the cinema, so we would watch them together on the television, while she was taking breaks from the housework and we'd watch them with the ads, dubbed films. She loved them. She didn't watch many Japanese films, they would be foreign films, western films. She loved Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, and Joan Fontaine, and all these beautiful actresses. I remember she liked Hitchcock's Rebecca. But she was so annoying, because she would tell me what happened at the end. So I didn't really like watching them with her, because she would say things like, 'Oh, is she not dead yet?'
"But those were the films that she liked."
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I love Hirokazu Kore-eda. Still Walking is great - even I had a hard time when I was trying to watch it for the first time: I wasn't in the mood . Luckily I tried a few days later again, and loved it. My favorite Hirokazu Kore-eda is OUR LITTLE SISTER.
I like that one too. Seems to be a less popular one. It's just really nice and there's so much food in it!
When i was watching this movie, i had this weird feeling of anxiety throughout the course of the movie, expecting things to go super downhill any moment. It never really reached that point, i am glad it didn't.
Hiya, I don’t usually comment on videos, but I just wanted to type that you are easily my favorite reaction channel by a long shot. I love that you actually give insights and theories and try to figure out what the filmmaker(s) had in mind, which I know is what a lot of art film lovers do, but I don’t know anyone who’s willing to talk about this stuff. So yeah, thanks for being yourself with these videos, hope you’re living the dream or one day will be.
(Also I haven’t seen this film yet but it sounds awesome, and I also don’t mean to be harsh to any other reaction channels out there)
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Amo este filme !!!! O melhor de Koreeda ❤
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Really like this one. Have issue with some of the characterization of the guy he saved. It's a bit "here comes the fat boy! Look at how fat he is!"
You seen nobody knows? Rough!
Well that's the perspective of the family, but the audience is clearly not supposed to side with that. After all the main character doesn't agree with it.