Story of movie Still Walking Film :
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Still Walking (???? ???? Aruitemo aruitemo) is a 2008 Japanese film edited, written, and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film is a portrait of a family over roughly 24 hours as they commemorate the death of the eldest son. The film was widely praised by critics and won the Golden Astor for Best Film at the 2008 Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
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| Directed by | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Produced by | Yoshihiro Kato Satoshi K?no Hijiri Taguchi Masahiro Yasuda |
| Written by | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Starring | Hiroshi Abe Yui Natsukawa You Kirin Kiki Yoshio Harada |
| Music by | Gontiti |
| Cinematography | Yutaka Yamasaki |
| Edited by | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
Production company | CineQuanon |
| Distributed by | IFC Films |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $3.26 million |
Screenplay
The Yokoyama family come together every year to commemorate the death of the eldest son, Junpei, who drowned accidentally 15 years ago while saving the life of another boy. His father Kyohei, a retired doctor, and mother Toshiko are joined by their surviving son Ryota, who has recently married a widow with a young son, and their daughter Chinami, her husband and their children. The family experience nostalgia, humour, sadness and tension as memories are shared and ceremonies performed.
- Hiroshi Abe as Ryota Yokoyama
- Yui Natsukawa as Yukari Yokoyama
- You as Chinami Kataoka
- Kazuya Takahashi as Nobuo Kataoka
- Shohei Tanaka as Atsushi Yokoyama
- Susumu Terajima as Sushi deliverer
- Kirin Kiki as Toshiko Yokoyama
- Yoshio Harada as Kyohei Yokoyama
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Still Walking received wide acclaim from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of 62 professional critics gave the film a positive review. In a Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert gave the work four stars and touted that Kore-eda is an heir of Yasujir? Ozu. Trevor Johnston of Sight & Sound wrote that "however one positions Still Walking in the firmament of Japan's cinematic achievements, one thing is sure: it belongs up there with the masters." The film won the Asian Film Award for Best Director, and was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
- List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator website
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