Izu no odoriko

1974

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

Katsumi Nishikawa Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Tomomi Satô as

Jûkichi Uno as Narrator

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

Chronicle of My Mother

2011

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

1950s

based on memoir or autobiography

Drama

emotionally distant

forgetfulness

semi autobiographical

Masato Harada Director

Tateto Serizawa as (as Okito Serizawa)

Rentarô Mikuni as Hayato

Tomomi Satô as Nipponmaru sailor

Takahiro Miura as Segawa

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.