Family get-together in annual commemoration of a premature death. Hirokazu Kore-eda (After Life, Nobody Knows) dons the mantle of Yasujiro Ozu, and finds it a little large. The slow accumulation of domestic and conversational minutiae seeks a balance of the sublime and the monotonous, tilting ultimately toward the latter. Yoshio Harada, Kirin Kiki, Hiroshi Abe, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Yui Natsukawa. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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