After the Storm
2016 · Movie · 117 min · ★ 7.2 · 90% critics
A once-promising writer now scraping by as a private detective struggles with divorce, money troubles, and being present for his young son. When a typhoon traps the family overnight in his mother's small apartment, old frustrations and quiet hopes rise to the surface.
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Details
- Original title
- 海よりもまだ深く
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-05-21
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Critic score
- 90/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (394 votes)
- Box office
- $5,382,886
About
If you like intimate, realistic family dramas such as Nobody Knows or Our Little Sister, this offers tender, thoughtful emotion and lived-in relationships; Not for you if you want fast pacing, big plot turns, or high drama.
Pros: deeply human drama; warm, witty dialogue; relatable family tensions | Cons: very slow pace; low-key story; uneven first half
Themes
- japan
- gambling
- dysfunctional family
- family relationships
- slice of life
- writer
- storm
- divorce
- family
- private detective
- grandmother
- philosophical
- +2 more
Cast & crew
Hiroshi Abe
as Ryota Shinoda
Kirin Kiki
as Yoshiko Shinoda
Yoko Maki
as Kyoko Shiraishi
Taiyo Yoshizawa
as Shingo Shiraishi
Satomi Kobayashi
as Chinatsu Nakashima
Sosuke Ikematsu
as Kento Machida
Lily Franky
as Koichiro Yamabe
Isao Hashizume
as Mitsuru Niida
Kanji Furutachi
as Miyoshi
Shono Hayama
as Sanada
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda