Review: Still Walking (U)***
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda (After Life, Nobody Knows) crafts another haunting portrait of family life with this drama about two generations remembering the dead.
Retired doctor Kyohei (Yoshio Harada) and his long-suffering wife, Toshiko (Kirin Kiki), prepare to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of their eldest son. Youngest boy Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), who is now married with a stepson, and daughter Chinami (You), who has a husband and daughter, both arrive at their childhood home to be greeted by a large picture of their long lost sibling. Tensions are conveyed in glances between the family members as grandchildren run riot. Meanwhile, Chinami steels herself to ask her parents for a favour and Ryota continues to clash with his old man, who seems embedded in the past.