<p><strong>“This sublimely poignant character study will likely rank alongside Ozu's classics&hellip; one of the best Japanese family dramas ever put on film.” - <em>Time Out</em></strong><em></em></p>

<p>The Yokoyama family reunites to honour their eldest son, who died saving a boy from drowning 15 years earlier. The annual ritual teases out buried resentments and disappointments - particularly for Ryota, who has spent the last decade and a half living in his dead brother's shadow.</p>

<p>One of the great humanists of Japanese cinema, Hirokazu Koreeda (the subject of a MIFF retrospective in 2007) here continues his dissection of the themes of memory, death and loss.</p>

<p>“So completely absorbing, so sure of its own scale and scope that while you're watching it the rest of the world fades into irrelevance.” - <em>New York Times</em></p>

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