Still Walking 2008 123movies

Watch: 歩いても 歩いても 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear..
Plot: Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger’s life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn’t the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
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Ratings:

	7.9/10 Votes: 16,721
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	89/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 275 Popularity: 11.866 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Meditation
Few other nations can capture the beauty of family drama with such subtlety and grace as the Japanese can. Perhaps it is a blessed legacy left behind by the master Yasujiro Ozu who in his lifetime made over 50 films, all of which are family dramas that often dealt with generational gaps. Japan, more than any other nation struggles with the problem of generational gap, being a nation that has continued to endure conflict between the young and the old, the traditional and the modern. Stepping into Ozu’s shoes is the acclaimed director Koreeda Hirokazu, whose films “Nobody Knows” and “After Life” has already garnered universal praises.

“Still Walking” begins as a family reunites to commemorate the death of one of its members. With new members joining the family and old wounds resurfacing, everyone tries their best to pass the two day gathering with as little problem as possible. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Well, therein lies the plain and subtle beauty of the film. From a few words exchanged between the grandfather and his new grandson to the laughter of three children as they caress a blossoming flower, these simple moments will linger in your mind with tasteful resonance long after the film.

While watching the movie, I found it hard not to be immersed by the beauty of Japanese suburbia. I could picture myself – like the characters, taking a stroll on a simmering summer day with the cool breeze in my hair as the gentle picking of guitar strings play in the background. Or perhaps eating lunch and drinking cold ice tea on tatami mats as the wind-charm tickles with the slightest vibration. “Still Walking” is a meditation on life and death that may just move you to tears…without even trying.

Quietly brilliant
Oh, my heart. This is a quietly devastating film about family dysfunction. The elderly parents in the story are deeply sympathetic and yet also deeply flawed, caring more for their dead son than their living son or daughter, both of whom bring their families over for a mini-reunion of sorts. We gradually see the cracks in the various relationships, and that events of the distant past are still top of mind for all of them, leading to a family gathering that’s civil but not joyous, all of which I could relate to. Kore-eda tells this poignant story masterfully, with restraint and simplicity, and the cast is strong from top to bottom (Kirin Kiki as the mom, and Hiroshi Abe as the son in particular).

Part of what makes the movie so good is that the characters feel so authentic, and nothing is black and white. The mother is sweet and hospitable but has a lot of negative things to say, displaying some of the rougher points of her character when she talks about putting the guy her son saved through the annual torture of visiting them, or when she says she doesn’t want to be cramped by her daughter or her noisy grandkids living with her. The father, meanwhile, is gruff and emotionally distant to say the least. And yet, they also have their own stories – she sings along fondly to a song playing that reminds her of a time when life was still so full of hope, but she tells her husband she first heard it when she discovered his past infidelity, dropping quite a bomb on him when he’s in the tub. The couple are still together but they bicker, and we see various uncaring behavior such as him not recognizing her housework as ever having “worked” (ha!), not helping her across the street, or her only finding out he goes off to karaoke by reading Christmas cards sent to him.

Maybe the film is just showing that this is what was “normal” for families in that generation (the word “normal” is used a few times), but also what the consequences of that are. The parents both express disappointment in so many ways, rather than embracing the people their kids turned out to be (and in turn, their spouses and kids as well). It’s so sad, and so cautionary. Like the song says, the love you take is equal to the love you make – instead of the reunion making the kids want to come more often, it has the opposite effect. Sometimes someone has to take the first step or make an effort, beyond saying it will happen “one of these days,” as the son puts it. Maybe that’s how many grown-up kids and families are, I don’t know. I felt my heart in Kore-eda’s hands throughout the whole film, but rather than squeezing it mercilessly he just made it ache, and in the gentlest way possible, part of his talent.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 3511120
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You
Country N/A
Awards 11 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Mono (theatrical print)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
Laboratory Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan (processing)
Film Length 3,171 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema