Our Little Sister<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Sony Pictures Classics<\/b><\/p>\n
Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya<\/b><\/p>\n
Grade: B
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Director: Hirokazu Koreeda<\/b><\/p>\n
Written by: Hirokazu Koreeda from Akimi Yoshida\u2019s Umimachi Diary<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami\u00a0 Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase, Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Jun Fubuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi and Shinobu Otake,<\/b><\/p>\n
Opens: July 8th<\/sup>, 2016<\/b><\/p>\n Our Little Sister<\/i><\/b> is a Japanese drama that opens and closes with a funeral, dealing with a family of three sisters living at a family home in a small Japanese town. The oldest sister Sachi (Haruka Ayase) is a nurse at a hospital\u2019s Critical Care unit. She feels responsible for her siblings and runs the household. The middle sister Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa) is a bank executive, bored with her job, and the youngest Chika (Kaho) works at a sporting goods store and behaves most unpredictably. Their life is interrupted after receiving a phone call notifying them about their estranged father\u2019s death. During the funeral ceremonies they meet their half-sister, a fifteen-year old Suzu (Suzu Hirose) and invite her to live with them.<\/b><\/p>\n What follows is a sedate and slow moving plot that takes place during a year\u2019s time at a pretty seaside town. We are exposed to excessive Japanese customs of curtesy, politeness, muted emotions and lots of bowing. Right below the surface of this Seaside Town Diary<\/i>, based on Akimi Yoshida\u2019s Umimachi Diary, <\/i>lies a story of broken families where men leave their wives and children, establishing secondary living units with younger women. The oldest sister follows her father\u2019s footsteps and develops romantic interest with a married male doctor from her workplace.<\/b><\/p>\n Director Hirokazu Koreeda takes his time, moving the plot at an overlong one-hundred and twenty-eight minutes, where ninety five will suffice. Director of photography Takimoto Mikiya does a fantastic job filming in Fuji, <\/b>Kamakura, a seaside city south of Tokyo; <\/b>and <\/b>Shizuoka prefecture on central Honshu\u2019s Pacific coast, near Mt. Fuji.<\/b><\/p>\n Our Little Sister <\/i><\/b>may find audiences among the indie crowd willing to put up with a slow moving plot, which ends where it started.<\/b><\/p>\n Unrated. 128 minutes. \u00a9 Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/b><\/p>\n Story: B-<\/b><\/p>\n Acting: B+<\/b><\/p>\n Technical: B<\/b><\/p>\n Overall: B<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Little Sister Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya Grade: B Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Written by: Hirokazu Koreeda from Akimi Yoshida\u2019s Umimachi Diary Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami\u00a0 Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase, Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Jun Fubuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi and Shinobu Otake, Opens: July 8th, 2016 Our Little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n