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Like Father, Like Son

Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son)

2013

Hirokazu Koreeda

Masaharu Fukuyama, Yoko Maki, Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Lily Franky

7.2

7,507

Drama Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Even Kore-eda fans may feel a let-down with a lovely film that makes little emotional connection. Still the wit and charm are there and the filming is impeccable, full of wry humor"	NEU
United States	Keith Uhlich Time Out	"This is a relentlessly quiet character study that is photographed with Zen remove and scored metronomically to Bach and Beethoven, each scene metronomically to the barest essentials"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Good-natured domestic drama set in contemporary Japan, but it lacks the nuance and innovation of his earlier work (...) rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"'Like Father, Like Son' is a characteristically low-key but supple treatment of familial bonds, expectations and responsibilities that reverberates with heartrending impact"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[Ryota is the] perfect hook on which to hang this persuasively human story."	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"[It] captures these children’s inner lives and thought processes so perfectly that what Kore-eda has achieved feels less like direction than a specialised form of wildlife photography (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"I can see how 'Like Father, Like Son' would be a tough sit for any parent. Tough, but extremely worthwhile (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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