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Bookmark this pageI Wish (2011)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
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From Time Out Online
The long shadow of Yasujiro Ozu – and memories of his own ‘Nobody Knows’ – inform this latest masterpiece from one of Japan’s finest living directors. Ryu and Koichi are brothers separated by divorce: stoic, grounded 12-year-old Koichi lives dutifully in coastal Kagoshima with his mother and grandparents, while 10-year-old tearaway Ryu is living it up with his deadbeat musician dad in urban Kyushu. But when Koichi discovers that a new bullet train line is due to open – and that the first two trains will pass each other roughly halfway between the two cities – he spies a chance to reunite the family. With note-perfect performances from its young leads and their sprawling, beautifully sketched gang of friends, lucid photography (including a heartstopping climactic still-frame sequence) and a plot that leads to precisely the right part of nowhere, ‘I Wish’ is perhaps best summed up by its original Japanese title: miracle.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Nene Ohtsuka, Joe Odagiri, Yoshio Harada full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 129 mins
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