Pluskylang Great Film overall

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

edwardmbrown This beautiful film introduces the viewer to three generations of a Japanese family as they gather at the home of the parents/grandparents. Through the movie we discover a lot about the complex emotional relations between them. The oldest son has died some years earlier and his memory is central to the family. Influenced by the great filmmaker Ozu, this film moves in a slow, contemplative pace. Nonetheless the discoveries the viewer makes about the family members burst quietly and sustain the viewer's interest in the family. The intensity of the relationships in the family and the film's close focus on them left me feeling, just as in life, both that I knew these people well and that there was a lot that I didn't know about them. I will watch this film again to see what more I can learn about these people.

Anirudh After reading the plot, I expected 'Still Walking' to be one of those melodramatic family reunion films where the members reunite one day and resolve all their differences. Well in reality, It's much more subtle than that and actually brings out why, in real-life, reconciliation is much harder than we may expect or like it to be, even among family members. Some disagreements that you may have have with your mom or dad may be such that you will have to go against your principles/values if you want to make peace with them. These are the kinds of issues that are portrayed in this film, with beauty and emotional intensity. But there is a message of reconciliation as well because although the characters have their differences, they try their best to get through the occasion without hurting each other's feelings and at least trying to pretend as if their differences do not matter when they're together. I am starting to really like Hirokazu Koreeda's works. If you like watching films that have a strong social,family-based narrative, you should really check out Koreeda's films. In a nutshell - Is it a deeply moving film? yes. Is it a realistic portrayal of common family issues? Yes. But is it one of those "and they happily lived together ever after" films? No.

hauman This terrific character study of a family, written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, is grounded in universal terms that could place it in any civilized city in the world. The family assembly to honor the dead is a trans-cultural one and the filmmakers, though depicting the day-to- day life of a Japanese family, uses western music to give the film a world feel. Food is an ongoing character throughout "Still Walking" and has a cathartic affect on the family members and their conflicts whenever they gather to eat.The acting is believable and realistic. Grandpa would be grumpy because he feels that he is still useful even if his eyesight has gone bad. Ryo has lived in the shadow of his favored brother all of his life and resents his father for it. My favorite character, though, is Ryo' stepson Atsushi. The young boy comes across as a wiseman observing the foibles of his new family as he lives among them. All of the family characters are given full dimension by the actors.

kit-31 There is much in Japan that is romantic...but not in this family...The characters in this Japan are not romantically resigned to their fate but committed to renewing it and reminding themselves of their disappointment in it....disappointment is their normal...in that they are more Mizoguchi than Ozu...they even dabble in vengeance you'd find in a Kurosawa family drama...It is not uncommon for people to refuse to forget their past ... and enslaved by that past be all too often bound to repeat it...intentionally rubbing their fates in it...Resignation to fate may be romanticized in some films, but not here at this film's core...the power that moves these people is not their dreams but the nightmares, obligations, and uncredited family contributions that keep them from moving to their future....We have hopes for these people even if they don't hope much hope for themselves....and in our hope we have a wonderful movie...The only negative reaction I had was at the end when the narrator explained the future...through the film we saw enough of their future without it, and what the images didn't explain gave us enough to wonder how the narrator's relationship with his parents was resolved....as it is, he explained it and I wish he hadn't...I would have liked to imagine the possibilities...but that's the romantic in me.This story is mercilessly intimate, and recommended....