An impressive movie

To be honest, I wonder how actually ended up watching this flick. If I recall it correctly, I read some good things about it on our TV magazine and I thought I might as well check it out. Usually, I don’t really care about true stories but this one was just really heartbreaking and, apparently, the original event called the Sugamo child abandonment case was actually even more worse (to think that, in real life, the mother regained custody of the two daughters after 3 years in jail is also rather mind-blowing). Anyway, it was definitely a strong story and, on top of that, the directing and the acting were very good as well. Apparently, the director Hirokazu Koreeda spent a lot of time with the children to make sure that they could really express themselves freely as a genuine children without too much interaction from any adults. Indeed, in most movies, children actually act following the stereotypes grown-ups have but, here, the acting felt really natural, believable and quite spellbinding to watch. To conclude, I think it was a really shocking and fascinating drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Asian movies.

8/10