Still Walking (2008)

NR06/28/2008Drama, Family1h 54m
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Overview

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Hiroshi Abe

    Ryota Yokoyama

  2. Cast 1

    Kirin Kiki

    Toshiko Yokoyama

  3. Cast 1

    Yui Natsukawa

    Yukari Yokoyama

  4. Cast 1

    Yoshio Harada

    Kyohei Yokoyama

  5. Cast 1

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    Chinami Yokoyama

  6. Cast 1

    Kazuya Takahashi

    Nobuo Kataoka

  7. Cast 1

    Hotaru Nomoto

    Satsuki Kataoka

  8. Ryôga Hayashi

    Mutsu Kataoka

  9. Shohei Tanaka

    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...