After The Storm centres around unrepetentant gambler Ryôta Shinoda (Hiroshi Abe), who’s obviously short of money, but doesn’t want to lose too much else now that his father has passed away, and he’s becoming increasingly …
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Like Father, Like Son – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Like Father, Like Son initially centres around workaholic father Ryota Nonomiya (Fukuyama Masaharu), his put-upon wife Midori (Ono Machiko) and their 6-year-old son, Keita (Keita Ninomiya), with a family life that can just about be …
Continue readingI Wish – Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Boxset on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
I Wish is the first title in the Hirokazu Koreeda Family Values Blu-ray triple boxset, and it tells a bizarre tale about a volcano which is about to erupt over the Japanese town of Kigoshima, …
Continue readingOur Little Sister on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Our Little Sister, positions Suzu Hirose as the titular female sibling, just 13 years old, yet already finding herself amongst a mixed bag of family strife, in Japan, to rival all the characters in any …
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