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 ...
Like Father, Like Son
At what point does a father truly become a father?
2013 · 2h · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Overview
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Director and cast
- Hirokazu Kore-eda Director
- Masaharu Fukuyama as Ryota Nonomiya
- Machiko Ono as Midori Nonomiya
- Yoko Maki as Yukari Saiki
- Lily Franky as Yudai Saiki
- Jun Fubuki as Nobuko Nonomiya
- Jun Kunimura as Kazushi Kamiyama
- Kirin Kiki as Riko Ishizeki
- Isao Natsuyagi as Ryosuke Nonomiya
- Arata Iura as Shinichi Yamabe
- Keita Ninomiya as Keita Nonomiya
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
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.
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.
A moving drama about parenthood from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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