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All Around Us

Gururi no koto

Japan

2008

140 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
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DIR Ryosuke Hashiguchi

EXEC Tetsujiro Yamagami

PROD Hiroki Ôwada, Yuji Sadai, Takeo Hihamatsu

SCR Ryosuke Hashiguchi

DP Shogo Ueno

CAST Tae Kimura, Lily Franky, Mitsuko Baishô, Susumu Terajima, Seiichi Tanabe

ED Ryosuke Hashiguchi

PROD DES Toshihiro Isomi

MUSIC Akeboshi

SOUND Takeshi Ogawa

London (World Cinema), São Paulo, Toronto, Berlinale (Panorama)

Synopsis

At work, Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, silently observes the highest profile crimes and scandals of the 1990s and decline of Japanese values without judgement. At home in joys of marriage, he quietly observes his wife’s first pregnancy. When their child dies, the couple is shaken by the tragedy but Kanao manages to stand by his wife as she sinks into depression. He calmly guides her towards recovery during this gruelling experience. As they endure, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

No ambiente de trabalho, Kanao, responsável pela produção de retratos falados em um tribunal, observa em silêncio os grandes crimes, os escândalos dos anos 90 e a perda de valores da sociedade japonesa. Em casa, ele desfruta das alegrias do casamento e calmamente acompanha a primeira gravidez de sua mulher. Quando a criança morre, o casal fica abalado com a tragédia, mas Kanao precisa dar apoio à esposa para que ela não afunde em depressão. Enquanto eles resistem, o sentimento de esperança aos poucos ressurge, e a história de amor do casal mais uma vez ganha vida.

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Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Born in 1962 in Nagasaki, Japan, Hashiguchi shot his first Super-8 film in high school. His feature debut, The Secret of Last Night(1989), won the grand prize at the Pia Film Festival for new directors. His other award-winning films include A Touch of Fever(1993), Like Grains of Sand(1995) and Hush!(2001), which was an official selection at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Hashiguchi also works as a screenwriter, novelist, and actor. —asianmediawiki.com 

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msmichel

3Apr11

Somewhat disappointing melodrama from Hashiguchi. Loved his "like grains of sand" back in the nineties and had high hopes for this one. The casting of Lily Franky as the artist seems to be underwhelming. Tae Kimura is however very good. At 2 hr 20 min the film is at least a reel too long and seems to be at cross purposes in deciding whether it wants to be a human story or a history of recent court cases. Pass.

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NYAFF 09 Review: ALL AROUND US

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for the following review.] One of the best selections this year of both the New York Asian Film Festival and the Japan Cuts Festival is Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s All Around
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NYAFF 09 Review: ALL AROUND US

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for the following review.] One of the best selections this year of both the New York Asian Film Festival and the Japan Cuts Festival is Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s All Around
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Art and life: being together as becoming

By inciner​rante on November 2, 2009

To the extent in which it deals with the relationship between art and life, Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s “All around us” can be seen as a supplement and a counterpoint to Takeshi Kitano’s “Achilles and the…  read review

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