Our Little Sister (2015) Umimachi Diary
Our Little Sister (2015)
BDRip | MKV | 1024 x 560 | x264 @ 2036 Kbps | 126 min | 2,32 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs (embedded): English, Japanese
Genre: Comedy, Drama
BDRip | MKV | 1024 x 560 | x264 @ 2036 Kbps | 126 min | 2,32 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs (embedded): English, Japanese
Genre: Comedy, Drama
There are three sisters: 29-year-old Sachi Kouda (Haruka Ayase), 22-year-old Yoshino Kouda (Masami Nagasawa) and 19-year-old Chika Kouda (Kaho). They live at a house in Kamakura, Japanese. Their house was left by their grandmother. One day, they receive news of their father's death. When the sisters were young, their parents divorced and their father left them. They haven't seen their father in 15 years. Upon hearing the news on their father's death, the sisters attend their father's funeral. At the funeral, they meet their stepsister Suzu Asano (Suzu Hirose). She is 14-years-old and there are no one to take care of her. Oldest sister Sachi invites Suzu to live with them.
IMDB - 12 wins
This movie is 128 minutes long and at the end i was hoping it could go on for two more hours. For me it is the essence of what cinema should be. Great story real characters and real life ! Just a few days before i was watching SW7 and thought it was an OK movie but while watching "our little sister" i was realizing how much better cinema can be and how bad most Hollywood blockbusters really are. I know its like comparing a Michelin star cook to Mc Donald's but when you tasted both you realize one is art and one is fast food. One you eat because you're hungry (bored) and one because it tastes great. This movie is art because it touches you in a special way … not you ego but your humanity.
Compared to Hirokazu Koreeda previous movie "like father like son" the story is very loose sometime you even think there is none. You also get tricked by the expectations other movies force you to have by repeating the same motives over and over again. I'm not sure if this is intentional or the movie is just so different.
Like most Japanese or Asian movies there is some stuff that could be a little bit to slapstick and melodramatic for western viewers but thats a very small price to pay.
If you don't count anime "our little sister" makes it in my top 5 Asian movies of all time. I highly recommend it.
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Our Little Sister (2015) Umimachi Diary
Our Little Sister (2015) Umimachi Diary
Our Little Sister (2015) Umimachi Diary
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