After the Storm (2016 film)
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| Japanese | 海よりもまだ深く |
| Directed by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Produced by | Kaoru Matsuzaki Akihiko Yose Hijiri Taguchi |
| Screenplay by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
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Hiroshi Abe Kirin Kiki Yōko Maki |
| Music by | Hanaregumi |
| Cinematography | Yutaka Yamasaki |
| Edited by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
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AOI Pro. Inc.
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| Distributed by | Gaga |
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117 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
After the Storm (海よりもまだ深く Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku?) is a 2016 Japanese family drama film written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The theme of the film is "you can’t always have the life you want, or be who you want to be". It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Japan on May 21, 2016.
Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely meet ends and pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother Yoshiko (Kirin Kiki) seem to be moving on with her life with hobbies with the local elderly ladies. Ryota makes extra money by counter-offering his service with agency's client targets. He gets a contract to aid in a manga series with an upcoming artist but his ambitions stymie him from it initially. He finds his sister Chinatsu is visiting their mother frequently and suspects she is trying sponge off her and as he believes she makes their mother to pay for her daughter's figure skating lesson's from her social pension. His sister suspects Ryota's visits are for taking advantage of their mother. Ryota tries to renew contact with his beautiful ex-wife Kyoko (Yoko Make) and in a stormy summer night sheltered at his mother's home with his family he attempts to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son Shingo (Taiyo Yoshizawa). His ex-wife says it is truly over with them and grownups cannot live only with love but planning is required and Ryota isn't cut out to be family man, if he were he would have done so earlier. Ryota reaches an understanding on his family life and uses the chance to bond with his son and tries to make memorable experiences he had with his father as a child with his son before time and place for it passes over.
Production began in December 2015.
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