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- Why comfort will ruin your life | Bill Eckstrom | TEDxUniversityofNevada5.3M Views
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In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology -- the study of flags -- Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Nature’s beauty can be fleeting -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens.
- Tokyo Sonata (2008)（トウキョウソナタ）
- Rebirth (2011) （八日目の蝉）
- What A Wonderful Family! (2016) （家族はつらいよ）
- Like Father, Like Son (2013) （そして父になる）
- The Eight Year Engagement (2017) （8年越しの花嫁 奇跡の実話）
- Nobody Knows (2004) （誰も知らない）
- Still Walking (2011) （歩いても 歩いても）
- Our Little Sister (2015) （海街diary）
- Papa’s Lunchbox Is The Best in The World （パパのお弁当は世界一）
- Shoplifters (2018) （万引き家族）
Tokyo Sonatastrips away the public mask of the average middle-class Japanese family. In the Sasaki family, everything is not as it seems because everyone has secrets. The father is a salaryman who loses his job but doesn’t tell his family. The firstborn son wants to join the U.S. military. The youngest wants piano lessons and the mother is just try...
This film is based on an acclaimed book by Mitsuyo Kakuta. It’s about a baby, Erina, who is kidnapped from her biological parents and spends her formative years with her kidnapper/mother, the father’s former lover— until she’s returned to her real parents. Adult Erina, now carrying the child of a married man, struggles with conflicting feelings tow...
If you’re looking for a family drama on the lighter side, check out the What A Wonderful Family!trilogy (two sequels were released in 2017 and 2018). After 50 years of marriage, a grumpy old man’s wife wants a divorce, and the family doesn’t know how to handle it. A family meeting to discuss the issue turns into an unfortunate series of events that...
Looking for an excellent family drama that explores the age-old nature versus nurture debate? Look no further than Like Father, Like Son. Because of a bungle at a hospital, two babies are switched at birth and raised by families on two different ends of the social class spectrum. When the hospital owns up to its mistake years later, each family has...
Based on a true story, this movie may make you believe in love again. Hisashi (Takeru Sato) and Mai (Tao Tsuchiya) are a young couple who must deal with a surprising but devastating condition that takes a toll on Mai. A month prior to their wedding, she is struck with a grave illness, which leaves her with amnesia as far as Hisashi is involved. Whi...
Brace yourself. This movie directed by the acclaimed, award-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda, is not your average happy-go-lucky Tokyo family story. What happens when a mother leaves her four kids in an apartment and never returns? Inspired by true events, this poignant tale reveals the seedy underbelly of Tokyo life where kids could be living wit...
In Still Walking, another gem by Koreeda, tension simmers under the surface at a yearly family reunion that commemorates the death of a son who died while saving a friend from drowning. To add insult to injury, the friend whose life was saved is always invited to the reunion and forced to hear about how great the dead son was.
In Our Little Sister, three adult sisters living in Kamakura meet their teenaged half-sister for the first time when their estranged father dies. What follows includes an exploration of each sister’s perspective on how their chilly relationships with their parents have affected their present romantic connections. This adaptation of a popular manga ...
In Japan, it’s a common stereotype that the okaasan(mom) makes the bento(lunchbox)while the otousan(dad) goes go off to work. This movie, based on a true story, challenges this stereotype when a single dad has to make bentos for his high school daughter. Although she is initially embarrassed by his attempts, his bento-making skills gradually improv...
The family that shoplifts together stays together, right? This is the basic premise of another Koreeda movie on the not-so-perfect Japanese family. However, things get messy when the family decides to take in a young girl and they’re accused of kidnapping by the authorities. In true Koreeda style, this movie makes the viewer question what makes a f...
Nov 21, 2015 · The 12 Best Contemporary Japanese Family Dramas. Since the 1950s, with internationally acclaimed films like Akira Kurosawa’s “To Live”, Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” and Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Tales of Ugetsu”, Japanese filmmakers have been excelling in the family drama genre, one that still produces most of the country’s ...
1. Tokyo Sonata (2008) Rotten Tomatoes® 94%. 2. Departures (2008) Rotten Tomatoes® 80%. 3. Always - Sunset on Third Street (2005) 4.
In this very funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live -- and found a rapt audience. Shows include a 7-hour train journey, an 18-hour fishing expedition and a 5.5-day ferry voyage along the coast of Norway. The results are both beautiful and fascinating.
