Drama

LOVE LIFE

Chipangu

Nagoya Broadcasting Network

Comme des Cinémas

MK2 Films

Oscilloscope

Stardust Pictures

The Asahi Shimbun

Elephant House

Lotus Wise Partners

France

Japan

日本語

한국어/조선말

Love Life

Fumino Kimura

Kento Nagayama

Atom Sunada

Hirona Yamazaki

Misuzu Kanno

Tomorowo Taguchi

Tetta Shimada

Natsume Mito

Akari Fukunaga

Yoshiki Urayama

Win Morisaki

Marika Yamakawa

Hideo Yamamoto

Sylvie Lager

Koji Fukada

Hanaka Kikuchi

Olivier Goinard

Manabu Kagara

Nicolas Moreau

Romain Cadilhac

Charles Valentin

Frédéric Tribolet

Akiko Yano

Daichi Watanabe

Yasuhiko Hattori

Yûko Kameda

Masa Sawada

Hasumi Tomotake

Masaki Yamato

Akira Ono

Yuhiro Matsuoka

Yoshihito Oyama

Tatsuya Matsuoka

Yu Kato

Mai Sugiyama

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Anyone else remember playing "Othello" (the board game - not the "enemy in your mouth to steal your brains" guy)? I loved it... Anyway, "Taeko" (Fumino Kimura) lives with her second husband "Jirô" (Kento Nagayama) who has cheerfully adopted her rather lively young son "Keita" (Tetta Shimada) who is always playing the game. Indeed he is a champion and part of an online group who thrive at the thing. It's his birthday and he's all excitable. Mum loves a bath but often forgets to drain it afterwards... An accident ensues that leads to her ex-husband "Paku" (the frequently scene-stealing Atomu Sunada) coming back into their lives. He is an homeless, deaf, man and as both work for the local authority, "Jirô" suggests that - not entirely for altruistic reasons - she try to find him an home. His continuing presence puts everyone under a microscope that assesses decisions made and those yet to come for not just the three directly involved, but for grandparents who wanted a grandchild of their own and for people from both of their past lives. It deals with the expected emotions of guilt and torment, but it manages to avoid steeping us in sentimentality nor does it immerse us too depressingly in what is clearly a scenario riddled with grief and "what ifs?". The young Shimada is enjoyable to watch at the start and there is a definite chemistry here as the adults come to terms with their situation. It may seem a little long, but I felt Kôji Fukada paced this well allowing the characters to evolve in a natural fashion and making this quite an enjoyably poignant, at times darkly humorous, tale of family.

Love Life - Official U.S. Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories HD

UK Trailer [Subtitled]

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Fumino Kimura

Kento Nagayama

Atom Sunada

Hirona Yamazaki

Misuzu Kanno

Tomorowo Taguchi

Tetta Shimada

Natsume Mito

Akari Fukunaga

Yoshiki Urayama

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