#58. Miracle
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Producers: Unknown
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: This is a story of two young brothers who live in different cities but thanks to the newly built bullet-train line dream of reuniting their family.….(more)
Cast: Abe Hiroshi and Joe Odagiri
List Worthy Reasons…: Kore-eda can take a story that you’d normally find sentimentality and craft it so that it is void of sappiness. I don’t need to mention the merits of the filmmaker, but when thinking of the story above I’m thinking back, for different reasons, to films in his filmography: After Life (1998), Distance (2001) and Nobody Knows (2004). Re-teaming with his Air Doll star Joe Odagiri, when Kore-eda “delivers”…his films have the ability of lingering on.
Release Date/Status?: Currently filming, this should be ready for Cannes 2011.
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