Synopsis
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
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Cast
- Hiroshi AbeRyota Shinoda
- Kirin KikiYoshiko Shinoda
- Yoko MakiKyoko Shiraishi
- Taiyo YoshizawaShingo Shiraishi
- Satomi KobayashiChinatsu Nakashima
- Sosuke IkematsuKento Machida
- Lily FrankyKoichiro Yamabe
- Isao HashizumeMitsuru Niida
- Kanji FurutachiMiyoshi
- Shono HayamaSanada
Recommendations
- 100
The Film Stage
This is Kore-eda at his very best, facing up to the hardest truths with honesty and a nervous laugh — uncomfortable, invigorating, and ultimately cleansing, like the cinema’s equivalent of a cold shower. And I mean that in the best way possible. - 100
The Telegraph
No director working today observes family life with such delicacy and care, or is so unstintingly generous with what they find. - 100
Village Voice
I walked out of After the Storm wanting to be a better person — and further convinced that Hirokazu Kore-eda isn't just one of the world's best filmmakers, but one of its most indispensable artists. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
This bittersweet peek into the human comedy has a more subtle charm than flashier films like the director’s child-swapping fable Like Father, Like Son, but the filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you. - 90
The New York Times
Mr. Kore-eda, whose most noteworthy family dramas include “Still Walking” (2009) and “Like Father, Like Son” (2014), works in a quiet cinematic register, and the slightest error in tone could upend the whole enterprise. Slow-paced, sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny, After the Storm is one of his sturdiest, and most sensitive, constructions. - 83
The Playlist
After the Storm is a film that invites you in, and clears a space for you at the dinner table while you shuck off your shoes in the hallway. - 80
Screen Daily
Like Kore-eda’s 2008 family drama Still Walking, this is a film which is interested in the architecture, both emotional and physical, of the family home. - 80
Variety
Such is the finesse of Kore-eda’s script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees. Instead, it imparts those rare, liberating moments when characters revert to their most honest selves and pluck up the courage to express their deepest, albeit unattainable wishes.
