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The film's exploration of loss and the gulf of time and memory that separates us from our pasts is beautifully and subtly handled by Kore-eda.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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Overview
On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
Director and cast
- Hirokazu Kore-eda Director
- Arata Iura as Atsushi Mizuhara
- Yusuke Iseya as Masaru Enoki
- Susumu Terajima as Minoru Kai
- Yui Natsukawa as Kiyoka Yamamoto
- Tadanobu Asano as Sakata
- Azusa Takehana as Azusa
- Kenichi Endo as Tamaki Yamamoto
- Seminosuke Murasugi as Miyamura
- Baijaku Nakamura as Detective Kikuma
- Ryo as Yuko
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Thanks to deadly execution, viewer sympathy ends up going to the cult members who were obviously desperate to escape from the kind of society that makes numbingly tedious, ultimately distancing films like this.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
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