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Release Date:
January 17, 2014
Summary:
The "switched at birth" urban legend and the Nature vs. Nurture debate provide Hirokazu Kore-eda with a fresh opportunity to revisit his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan. The life of go-getting workaholic architect Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama)—one of comfort and quietly ordered affluence with his wife Midori (Ono Machiko) and son Keita (Keita Ninomiya)—is violently overturned when hospital administrators reveal the unthinkable: Keita is not his biological son. Due to a mistake made by a negligent nurse, his "true" son has been raised in the dishevelled but warm-hearted home of working-class shopkeeper Yudai (Lily Franky) and his wife (Yôko Maki). The different approaches of both couples to their excruciating dilemma and the gradual emotional awakening of the all-too-rational Ryota are at the core of this sensitive drama of family feeling, which showcases Kore-eda’s rich sense of humanity. [IFC Films]
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Details
| Runtime: | 121 min |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Official Site: | http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/like-father-like-son |
| Production: | TV Man Union |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Director | Credit |
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| Hirokazu Koreeda | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Hirokazu Koreeda | Screenplay |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Lily Franky | Yudai Saiki |
| Machiko Ono | Midori Nonomiya |
| Masaharu Fukuyama | Ryota Nonomiya |
| Yoko Maki | Yukari Saiki |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Arata | Cast |
| Hiroshi Ôkôchi | Cast |
| Isao Natsuyagi | Ryosuke Nonomiya |
| Jun Fubuki | Nobuko Nonomiya |
| Jun Kunimura | Kazushi Kamiyama |
| Kazuya Takahashi | Cast |
| Keita Ninomiya | Keita Nonomiya |
| Kirin Kiki | Riko Ishizeki |
| Lily Franky | Yudai Saiki |
| Machiko Ono | Midori Nonomiya |
| Masaharu Fukuyama | Ryota Nonomiya |
| Megumi Morisaki | Cast |
| Sh | Ryusei Saiki |
| Yoko Maki | Yukari Saiki |
| Yuri Nakamura | Cast |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Chihiro Kameyama | Executive Producer |
| Hijiri Taguchi | Producer |
| Kaoru Matsuzaki | Producer |
| Tatsuro Hatanaka | Executive Producer |
| Tom Yoda | Executive Producer |
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