Can you believe I only saw one film last month. Were has all the time gone? Still Walking is a Japanese film looking at the generational divide in a family that has seen trauma. The setting is the annual anniversary of the death of the son. Both the brother (and his girlfriend and her son) and sister (and her family) come back to mom and dads house to commemorate an accident where the youngest son died while rescuing a drowning boy at the beach. But the story is really about the relationship between the living son and the father. Neither feels understood by the other. But now, some conversation is able to happen in a circumspect way by having the father talk to the girlfriends son. Confusing? Sorry... but really a pretty interesting look at family dynamics that translates well in to any culture.
4 stars (out of 5)
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