A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Ryota Yokoyama
Toshiko Yokoyama
Yukari Yokoyama
Kyohei Yokoyama
Chinami Yokoyama
Nobuo Kataoka
Satsuki Kataoka
Mutsu Kataoka
Atsushi Yokoyama
At times I felt quite uncomfortable watching this film. It is set in the home of an elderly couple whose grown up son and daughter - and their own respective families - are coming for a reunion dinner in order to commemorate the drowning of their eldest son some years earlier when he was a youth. Whilst there is the traditional deference you'd expect from children to parents, it soon becomes clear that the mother - especially - is no stickler for protocol, and her questioning of her son and his wife (whose own relationship is at times quite strained) about their own baby plans soon leads us to...
Status Released
Original LanguageJapanese
Budget-
Revenue $3,511,120.00