Despite having a promising career as a writer, Ryota leads a difficult life: he divorced from his wife and spends all the money he earns as private detective in gambling, which hampers him from paying the child support for his eleven-year old son. Ryota’s chance to earn again the trust of her loved ones shows up when a typhoon makes him and his family spend the night together. The most recent film by Hirokazu Koreeda, recovers the incisive analysis on the family relations that the director has developed in their previous work from the examination of his characters under a tender and bittersweet glance.

DIRECTOR:

Hirokazu Kore-eda