Let us know if you have watched any of these movies on the list. It’s popcorn time make some Homemade Popcorn with Truffle Salt! Today at JOC, we’re excited to share a selection of our favorite Japanese movies that will take you a deeper look into the country’s history, culture and values. They are compelling, daring, imaginative and distinctive in style. If you are familiar with foreign films, you would probably agree that Japanese cinema is one of its kind.įrom food-theme movies, to classic movies to cult-following anime, each genre is an art form itself. Kore-eda is himself a father now, which may explain why his work has gotten sunnier.Today we’re going to take you for a culture trip through some of our favorite Japanese movies.Īside from foods, movies are often one of the best gateways to have a closer look at one culture.
It's also, interestingly, the director's first fiction movie that includes no references to mortality or after-death rituals. Where that film boasts a wealth of themes and characters, though, this one is simpler and more conventional. Like Father, Like Son continues some of the themes of its predecessor, I Wish, in which two brothers are separated by their parents' divorce. Easygoing Yudai is certainly the anti-Ryota, but all he gets are a few nice moments. The architect's trajectory is unsurprising, and not balanced by any other character's journey. He's the only actor with the same name as his character.īut it's Ryota who remains the focus, which is why this film registers as one of Kore-eda's lesser efforts. Kore-eda often begins his movies with documentary interviews or workshops, so it seems likely that this project's genesis involved Keita Ninomiya. Yudai and Yukari don't like that idea, but even when all four parents come to a decision, they may not be able to live with it. Unprepared to give Keita up, and shocked that his biological son is being raised in a crummy rural appliance shop, Ryota proposes taking both boys. The other boy's name is Ryusei (Hwang Shogen), and he's the oldest of three kids who live a modest, messy life very unlike Keita's.įor the next year, the two families struggle with feelings and logistics. Like father, like son? Yes, but turns out it's nurture, not nature: Summoned to a meeting at the small-town hospital where Keita was born, Ryota and Midori learn that their son was switched with one born to Yukari Saiki (Yoko Maki) and her husband Yudai (Lily Franky). Ryota is impressed, too, since this model father-son bonding experience never happened. While quiet Keita is less than a prodigy at the piano, he's already skilled at bureaucratic gamesmanship in the movie's opening scene, the boy impresses an elementary-school admissions officer with a tale of going camping with his father. But he's made it clear to their son, Keita (Keita Ninomiya), that dad has big plans for him. There's no reference to a child in the Japanese title, which means "And So He Becomes a Father."Īt the center of this engaging if ultimately predictable film is a man who technically became a father six years ago: Ryota Ninomiya (actor and J-pop star Masaharu Fukuyama) is an ambitious Tokyo architect who leaves most of the nurturing stuff to his wife, Midori (Machiko Ono). But the English-language title of his latest movie, Like Father, Like Son, is a little misleading. Tokyo filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda is known for deft work with kids, sometimes in scenarios with little or no adult presence.
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