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After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) [Sub: Eng]
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
6 June 1962, Tokyo, Japan
6 June 1962, Tokyo, Japan
9 July 1990, Dazaifu, Japan
July 03, 2017
The film uses a generalized minor tone almost negligible for its investigation of the various emotional colors of the contemporary Japanese family in conflict. [Full review in Spanish]
April 06, 2017
The director keeps his characters and audience bobbing together over waters that grow deeper and deeper, until it's impossible to distinguish the everyday from the profound.
April 20, 2017
A quiet character study of a man in slow-motion crisis.
July 05, 2017
As is common in the best cinema of Koreeda, the film stays oozing in the memory long after having seen it. [Full review in Spanish]
April 07, 2017
For a film filled with broken promises, dead dreams, conniving duplicity and desperation, "After the Storm" has a surprisingly light touch and odd charm.
June 15, 2017
Quiet revelations and fleeting poetry - a lottery ticket, we're reminded, is a piece of a dream - pleasingly ensue.
August 07, 2017
The map that Koreeda presents is exposed with solvency: it obtains empathy and closeness with its characters without making strong judgments. [Full review in Spanish]
June 29, 2017
The distance that Koreeda knows to keep between the subtlety of his humor and the crudeness of the motives he addresses makes it a beautiful pièce de résistance. [Full review in Spanish]
June 29, 2017
The transparency goes very well with the film, the gesture of entrusting all communication to the dialogues between their characters, but also to the relationship between the bodies of their actors and the spaces they occupy. [Full review in Spanish]
May 30, 2017
No modern filmmaker has as sure a grasp on family dynamics as Hirokazu Kore-eda.
March 30, 2017
Solid yet subtly sphinxlike ...
August 22, 2017
Instead of reaching out and dragging us into his films, [Hirokazu] Koreeda allows us enough space to approach situations that resist melodramatic overstatement. Slowly and deftly, he entangles us in the lives of his characters.

