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Like Father, Like Son

Like Father, Like Son (2014)

January. 17,2014
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7.8
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G
| Drama

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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Intcatinfo
2014/01/17

A Masterpiece!

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TrueHello
2014/01/18

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Portia Hilton
2014/01/19

Blistering performances.

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Zlatica
2014/01/20

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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rhaphazard
2014/01/21

The pacing was masterful. The camera knew just how long to hold a shot, and was never in a rush to cut. Yet, so much seemed to be happening. Time seemed to slow, but the storytelling had a brisk rhythm.The characters had personality and depth. The movie never strayed too far from the theme of family, making each important moment all the more impactful.There were three massive payoffs, one in each third of the movie. You are awarded for you patience in spades.## SpoilersThe first payoff comes in the form of light and timing, when shadow falls over the train right when the mother is talking about the father.When they're camping by the river and Keita asks his father, "Do they love me?... More than you?" And he answers with what he believes to be brutal honesty.And when the father discovers the photos his son took of him on the camera.Bonus payout: when the nurse's adolescent son defends her.These scenes made me weep.

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Matt Miller
2014/01/22

Ryota is a successful business person who has a wife and a child. He tries to educate his son in order to make him so intelligence person like Ryota. However, his son does not do anything Ryota gets him to do, therefore, gradually Ryota comes to doubt that the his son is not really his child. DNA analysis discover the fact that the child is not Ryota's real son. In fact, this accident is caused by the hospital where his wife gave birth to his son. They meet the family which has a real child. Both of the couples consult about the resolution, that is, whether they trade their children or they keep the present situation and continue to bring up their not-real child. Ryota manages to deal with this problem with some people, and finally he makes up his mind.To be brief, this film is masterpiece because this has a message to us, "Which do you choose, if your child does not have a blood tie?" This is so difficult question that the film shows one of the answers. Ryota's worries, opinions and conflicts with people around him. Finally he decides his answer and speaks to his not-real son; this scene is so touching and the message gives us an idea.I like this movie and I recommend you to watch it.

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milky2
2014/01/23

This story is draw difference in way life of the parent of 2 families than a story called the tragedy of 2 families, and Fukuyama is agonized and draws the process that gradually becomes father.The growth through various matters to be generated by having misunderstood a child of father whom Fukuyama plays.The sound of a feeling of air, camera work, the piano which floated was all my preference.The performance of the child's part was good, too.But both families who took a child wrong are relative expression.I was made to think about relative happiness.I think the happiness to be one's at will and think that it is each person. However, I have thought a little.It was serene, and there was a feeling of gentle air, and it was good that there were the words to sound in a heart.

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matlamarre
2014/01/24

So it's a foreign movie - fine, not everybody gets it. It confronts the viewer with a different set of social codes - precisely Japanese, a softer way of doing things which is light-years away from what we're used to in the Western world. This said, you actually need only one thing to fully appreciate this story : that is to be a parent. And this time (which is rare), the subject focuses on fatherhood instead of the ever-scrutinized motherhood. If you're a modern father, having outgrown the prototypical figure of the mid-to-late 20th century and being at peace with your so-called "feminine side", you will find it at least puzzling, if not disturbing to put yourself in the main character's shoes. Finding out your biological son has been swapped for another at birth is a shocking thought - and a not easily-resolved dilemma. And just for that - even though this is not necessarily a masterpiece offering -, this gentle, humane piece of work is worth seeing and ponder upon. A kind warning: do not follow up right away with a viewing of Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt", another fatherhood-themed movie, unless you're ready for a bad case of the blues...

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