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Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of “Nobody Knows”, “Still Walking” and “I Wish”, returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born…
Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not ‘their’ son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby.
Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture.’ Seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a ‘father’ all these years… The moving story of a man who finally faces himself when he encounters an unexpected wall for the first time in his life.
Original Release
09/24/2013
US Release
01/17/2014
Cast
Name | Character |
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Masaharu Fukuyama | Ryota Nonomiya |
Machiko Ono | Midori Nonomiya |
Yôko Maki | Yukari Saiki |
Lily Franky | Yudai Saiki |
Keita Ninomiya | Keita Nonomiya |
Shôgen Hwang | Ryusei Saiki |
Yuri Nakamura | Shoko Miyazaki |
Kazuya Takahashi | Daisuke Nonomiya |
Yoshida Yoh | |
Pierre Taki | (as Piêru Taki) / Shoko's Husband |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Masaharu Fukuyama | Ryota Nonomiya |
Machiko Ono | Midori Nonomiya |
Yôko Maki | Yukari Saiki |
Lily Franky | Yudai Saiki |
Keita Ninomiya | Keita Nonomiya |
Shôgen Hwang | Ryusei Saiki |
Yuri Nakamura | Shoko Miyazaki |
Kazuya Takahashi | Daisuke Nonomiya |
Yoshida Yoh | |
Pierre Taki | (as Piêru Taki) / Shoko's Husband |
Ichirô Ogura | Akiyama |
Hana Kino | |
Hiroshi Ohkôchi | Tadaharu Orima |
Kazuaki Shimizu | |
Tsuyoshi Hayashi | |
Tomoya Nakamura | |
Megumi Morisaki | |
Tomomitsu Adachi | |
Shirô Katô | |
Miyu Takizawa | Miyu Saiki |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Chiaki Harada | Executive Producer |
Tatsuro Hatanaka | Executive Producer |
Chihiro Kameyama | Executive Producer |
Satomi Odake | Executive Producer |
Yasushi Ogawa | Executive Producer |
Tatsumi Yoda | Executive Producer |
Kaoru Matsuzaki | Producer |
Yasuyuki Niino | Producer |
Megumi Osawa | Producer |
Hijiri Taguchi | Producer |