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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 …
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I 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, …
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Sweet Bean on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Sweet Bean centres around Sentarô (Mystery Train‘s Masatoshi Nagase), a man who’s as miserable a chef as I was when I used to work in a Little Chef, half a lifetime ago, looking at every …
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