After the StormAfter the Storm
(2016)
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After the Storm

A novelist turned detective tries to reconnect with his family during a typhoon in Tokyo.

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A beautiful story from Japanese cinema, a drama with a pinch of humor, about the inexorability of life. Yet, despite touching on delicate and sorrowful themes, the movie manages to have a light and humane touch.

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Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda tells the story of a struggling novelist, now working as a private detective, attempting to reconcile with his aging mother, ex-wife and 11-year-old son. As a typhoon passes, they end up spending the night together in his mother’s Tokyo apartment, but things don’t go particularly well for this fractured family.

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