Machiko Ono
Midori Nonomiya
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Sep 28, 2013 · With Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky. Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- (27K)
- Drama
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- 2013-09-28
Jan 17, 2014 · Hirokazu Kore-eda. Kore-eda brings his trademark delicate but deliberate eye (and ear) to a really heartbreaking scenario: Six years into raising their only child, a young couple are told that the child is not, in fact, theirs at all: that a hospital error switched two baby boys at birth.
May 18, 2013 · One day, Ryota receives a phone call from the hospital. The hospital informs Ryota that his 6-year-old son is not his biological son. After his birth, two babies were switched. Ryota and his wife become torn by the news.
- (1.8K)
- Koreeda Hirokazu
- Japan
- Life, Drama, Family
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Jan 16, 2014 · The Japanese melodrama “Like Father, Like Son” turns on the kind of cruel twist — children switched at birth — that’s the stuff of tear-wringing headlines and fiction. It begins with the...
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- 2 min
Jan 23, 2014 · Movie review: Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda brings his gentle, delicate touch to a familiar tale of switched babies in 'Like Father, Like Son.'
Jan 17, 2014 · Like Father, Like Son (2013) Movie Info Synopsis Ryota learns that his biological son was switched at birth with the boy he has raised, and he must make a life-impacting decision between...
- (102)
- Drama
Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama), Keita’s life-long dad — as opposed to biological father — is the prototypically wealthy but overworked Japanese, demanding but absent from his son’s life, while Keita’s mother, Midori (Machiko Ono), is the dutiful but neglected spouse.
