After the Storm 2016 123movies

Watch: 海よりもまだ深く 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother (Kirin Kiki) and beautiful ex-wife (Yoko Make) seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) – until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again..
Plot: Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko’s apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 11,614
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	84/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 263 Popularity: 10.412 | TMDB

Reviews:

That gentle Kore-eda magic
Such a gentle, sad film. It’s a story of letting a good life slip away not through a single bad decision, but by a succession of small ones, something we learn about a guy (Hiroshi Abe) only gradually. He’s quite a deadbeat, gambling away money when he gets his hands on it, not paying his child support or rent, and stealing things from his widowed mother (Kirin Kiki) to take to the pawn shop. He’s a hard guy to like or sympathize with, and a disappointment to everyone around him, most touchingly his ex-wife (Yoko Maki) and son.

Kore-eda wisely doesn’t turn the film into a melodrama by trying to explain everything that’s happened in these people’s lives, but we can connect some of the dots with what he shows us. I wondered if the main character had known that his father was secretly proud of the book he had written, whether that would have made a difference in how he turned out. Maybe that’s one of the saddest things, being aware of failure but seemingly unable (or unwilling) to take control and start taking positive steps again.

Kiki is wonderful in her part, shining especially in a flash of emotion where she wonders how things could have ended up this way. The moment where his son innocently asks him “are you who you wanted to be?” hits pretty hard too. And yet, none of them demonize him, and I’m pretty sure I judged him more than they did, even if his ex-wife stood up to all his BS pretty well. That’s part of Kore-eda’s magic, to be so incredibly gentle and accepting despite dealing with dark subjects. He also doesn’t offer any excuses or a flimsy feel-good resolution. We can decide for ourselves what will happen with these characters, much as we have control over at least some of the decisions in our lives.

Touching, heartfelt real life drama
In a relatively short time span, I’ve seen three films by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, and I’m planning to see many more. It seems most of his work is focused on family relations, and his films are touching, heartfelt real life dramas. The raw material for Kore-Eda’s films are emotions, and the ways his protagonists express them in words and by their behaviour.

Like the two other films I’ve seen (‘Our Little Sister’ and ‘Like Father, Like Son’), ‘After the Storm’ deals with parents, children, grandchildren and siblings. In this case, the central character is a divorced writer with financial problems, who has taken a job as a private detective to make ends meet. To keep up appearances, he pretends the job is a way of doing research for a new novel, but everyone knows there is no book.

His young son is very fond of his grandma, so they go visit her. But typhoon number 24 is approaching fast, and when the writer’s ex-wife comes to the apartment to pick up the boy, the bad weather conditions prevent them from going home. They have to spend the night at the grandmother’s house, just as if they were a normal family. And in a way, they almost are, during that one special night. After the storm, everything has returned to normal, except that the four of them are closer than they were before. The last shot is full of symbolism: the sun shines, but several broken and abandoned umbrellas are the witnesses of the stormy night.

It takes superior film making skills to turn such a story into a good movie. The emotions have to be measured out with care, in order to prevent it from turning into a tearjerker. The dialogue has to be natural, but at the same time not superficial. And the actors have to be completely believable. Just leave it to Kore-Eda: every scene is a joy to watch. It’s those little things that make his characters so real: when his mother starts pleading him to stay the night, the writer says: oh, mother, please don’t use this voice like you’re almost dying. These are exactly the things mothers and sons say to each other, with a mix of affection and irritation.

The director also gives little hints and references which you only fully understand after a while. At the very beginning, the writer’s mother remarks that a neighbour has moved to a bigger house. Only much later we learn that this has always been her own dream, and that she’s tired of her own tiny apartment. I think it takes a second viewing to get all the tiny hints sprinkled throughout the story.

Are we what we hoped to be? And what was it exactly we hoped to be? Those are the questions ‘After the Storm’ deals with. There are no clear cut answers. But thinking about the questions makes this film worthwhile.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 272132
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
Country Japan
Awards 2 wins & 14 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 535B, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux HR Lenses
Laboratory Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak), D-Cinema