Synopsis
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
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Cast
- Masaharu FukuyamaRyota Nonomiya
- Machiko OnoMidori Nonomiya
- Yoko MakiYukari Saiki
- Lily FrankyYudai Saiki
- Keita NinomiyaKeita Nonomiya
- Shôgen HwangRyusei Saiki
- Yuri NakamuraShoko Miyazaki
- Kazuya TakahashiDaisuke Nonomiya
- Yoh YoshidaHaruna
- Pierre TakiShoko's Husband
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
Hirokazu has crafted a warm and lovely film that suggests the easiest thing about raising a child is embracing how complicated it can be. - 100
The Telegraph
Kore-eda has crafted a piercing, tender poem about the bittersweet ebb and flow of paternal love, and his status as Ozu's heir becomes ever more assured. - 80
Empire
Another quiet delight from Koreeda. - 70
Variety
The director retains his controlled style even as he moves toward a more traditional narrative mode. - 67
IndieWire
The story works wonderfully as an idea, but Kore-eda never quite manages to infuse it with the same depth of feeling his main character goes through. - 62
Film.com
The film is starved for the kind of nuance Kore-eda wields effortlessly elsewhere. What’s left without it is something merely schematic. - 60
The Guardian
This is a sweet-natured, but essentially undemanding film from Kore-eda. - 60
Time Out London
There’s typical grace and good humour in Kore-eda’s handling of this all-but-impossible situation. But the film’s critical lack of dramatic nuance undercuts its emotional resonance.
