After seeing Koreeda's latest film, I thought I'd catch up on one of his I hadn't seen.
I enjoyed this a lot, but in some ways I wish I hadn't watched it so close to After the Storm because the actors and the themes were too similar.
I did love a few of the scenes though, in particular the one where the grandma (Kiki Kirin again) confesses that she wants to make the young man her dead son saved suffer. I loved how the camera moved to a side on angle, and there was something so dark and revealing in the way she spoke at that point.
I liked the characters a lot. Good film. 8/10