
Notorious
1946


“EVEN WHEN PEOPLE DIE, THEY DON’T REALLY GO AWAY.”
442 votes
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Director
Hirokazu Kore-edaWriters
Streaming availability for India
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Original Language
Japanese
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$3.5M
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At times I felt quite uncomfortable watching this film. It is set in the home of an elderly couple whose grown up son and daughter - and their own respective families - are coming for a reunion dinner in order to commemorate the drowning of their eldest son some years earlier when he was a youth. Whilst there is the traditional deference you'd expect from children to parents, it soon becomes clear that the mother - especially - is no stickler for protocol, and her questioning of her son and his wife (whose own relationship is at times quite strained) about their own baby plans soon leads us to…
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