Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds. –CIFF
A critic, director, and occasional actor, Harada Masato was born in Numazu, Japan, and is best known to international audiences as Omura in Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai (2003). His filmography includes Gunhed(1988), Kamikaze Taxi (1995), Bounce Ko Gals (1997), Spellbound (1999), Inugami(2001), Densen Uta (2007), and The Climbers High (2008).
