After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku)

A very good movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, once again, Koreeda has displayed here that he is one of the greatest humanist directors at work nowadays. Indeed, a lot of work has been done on the main character Shinoda Ryôta and the end-result was such a fine calibrated character. Sure, the guy seemed to be a deadbeat loser and he actually was. As a result, you might have a hard time to care about such a degenerate gambling addict obsessing about his ex-wife. I certainly did and, at some point, I was ready to give up on him. I’m not sure what bothered me the most, his gambling addiction or how he was stalking his ex-wife of how he neglected his son basically his whole life and, ” read more