Tokyo Newcomer (2012)
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.
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the audience applauded
It is a performances centric movie
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Stumbled on to this gem on youtube. The trailers give the wrong impression of the movie's pace & content. Tokyo Newcomer is gentle, quiet & has hidden depths.