Too soon! Comma or not, the English-language title of Japanese writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda often wrenching new family drama (winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival) bears too distinct a resemblance to the name of 1987’s universally beloved Dudley Moore/Kirk Cameron starter. What’s next, Japan? A movie whose title translates into Gone, With The Wind?
Okay, that’s enough out of me. But in all seriousness, the not inapt but too on-the-nose English language title of Soshite chichi ni naru (which, Google Translate tells me, works out to something like And I Will Be His Father ) is the worst thing about this movie. Kore-eda, whose pictures don’t exactly alternate between soulful, understated fantastic fables ( Afterlife, Air Doll ) and quiet family dramas ( Still Walking ), brings his trademark delicate but deliberate eye (and ear) to a really heartbreaking scenario. Six years into raising their only child Keita, whose birth left the young moth
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Ride or Die Review: Miles Ahead of Japan s Stereotypical LGBTQ Films
Strong female agency helps this passionate and sensual road movie blaze a trail.
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In the spirit of “Thelma and Louise,” a lesbian fugitive and the woman she’d kill for hit the road with three stilettos and a blood-red BMW in “Ride or Die.” A glammed up, erotically-charged cocktail of amour fou and true romance directed by Ryuichi Hiroki and written by Nami Kikkawa, the Netflix production gives agency to full-blooded female protagonists. That’s a rarity in Japan’s studio-dominated, cookie-cutter entertainment industry, which explains its liberating, inexhaustible energy.