Like Father Like Son
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman who is focused so much on work that he neglects his wife, Midori, and son, Keita. One day, he
25 December 1939, Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan
4 November 1963, Fukuoka, Japan
16 November 1955, Kumamoto, Japan
12 May 1952, Toyama, Japan
4 November 1981, Yoshino-gun, Nara, Japan
February 3, 1974 in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
15 October 1982, Chiba, Japan
15 January 1943, Tokyo, Japan
6 February 1969, Nagasaki, Japan
May 05, 2014
Powerful Japanese film about children switched at birth who challenge the love and hope of their rediscovered parents six years later. Beautiful and heartbreaking, from the masterful Hirokazu Koreeda.May 02, 2014
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda delivers a quiet, beautifully modulated, touching drama.May 02, 2014
There are times when the script seems just too schematic - as if Kore-eda has decided that we should all sit still while he lays out the nature versus nurture debate. Then the small truths which enrich each scene take over.March 22, 2016
[Hirokazu Kore-eda] uses an attractive and talented cast to find a fresh take on a subject that has been mined by television movies and series ad infinitum.February 14, 2014
If you've seen Hirokazu Koreeda's films - Nobody Knows, Still Life, I Wish - then just the announcement that a new one, Like Father, Like Son, has arrived is all you need to know.May 10, 2016
Always gentle, always composed, the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda also register quiet devastation, often within the family. The stirring -- the earthquake, even -- usually happens beneath the surface of calm.February 13, 2014
A moving drama about parenthood from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.February 21, 2014
Koreeda's film never feels gimmicky; he uses the situation to examine both nature and nurture while dealing with ties that simply can't be broken. "Like Father, Like Son" ponders the meaning of family.July 16, 2014
Completely realistic because it is in keeping with the reserved temperament of the culture.February 19, 2014
Writer and director Hirokazu Koreeda does not pretend that there are easy answers in his film, which at times plays almost like a fable. But the emotions and heartbreak are always grounded in reality.February 13, 2014
A deeply affecting Japanese family tale from Hirokazu Kore-eda, renowned for his films about parents, children, blood bonds and loss.March 07, 2014
If you've seen any of Koreeda's previous films, and especially the wrenching children-alone saga Nobody Knows, it won't surprise you to learn that the observation of children in Like Father, Like Son is unfailingly acute ...