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Leif 2022-04-20 09:02:20

This film is the first film I've watched Hirokazu-eda, and it's also the one I think the pace of his films is a little less slow and the most colorful. It is a very Japanese-style beautiful film that you can close your eyes after watching it and feel that the waves are by your side and the fireworks are on the top of your head. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl who moved to Kamakura, the ancient capital of Linhai, to live with her three half-sisters due to the death of her father. From this, the life of the four sisters, crying and laughing, unfolded... Fresh pictures, simple lives, The warm and tangled human relationship, such as the water life, permeates the true meaning of life and death. I really like this kind of light feeling. Everything happens so quietly and beautifully. There is no strong expression, but it is the warmest and most reliable existence for each other. I feel that although the world is not so beautiful, it is still a very cute film.

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  • Amy 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    It's Hirokazu Kore-eda that's almost reaching the realm of Ozu... All kinds of moves and styles are full of Ozu's flavor (so it's just in Kamakura this time)... This story is obviously a sweet version/grown up version [no one I know], that is, there is no blackening, and the uncle's healing sugar water tablets are so different.

  • Elinore 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    The reason why Zhi can't reach Ozu's height is probably because he can't understand the evil contained in the daily purity of Ozu's movies. Therefore, Haijie put the four sisters on the moral high ground and asked them to treat each other in a ideographic and symbolic manner like a saint until they were pale and false. And he also regrettably abandoned the implicit emotional convergence of the early films, and completely surrendered to the straightforward Japanese drama style.

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