2/14/2023 0 Comments Aoi tokyo school life![]() ![]() We then get a look at how Fumie’s day goes, which is a lot of cleaning, cooking, errands, organizing - and maybe pining for her days as a flamenco student - before the late shift starts, and the kids come home, greeting her with a thoughtless “I’m hungry” before promptly leaving the kitchen. After ambitiously rebooting Ozu’s classic Tokyo Story Yamada found a fourth, possibly fifth, wind in examining contemporary Japanese family life and struck gold with the cheekily titled What a Wonderful Family! If the robust response during the closing screening at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is any indication, Wonderful Family! 3 should receive the same warm welcome in Asia-Pacific, and beyond, as the first two installments did in 2016 and ’17 - not surprising given that it’s practically the same film, no matter how charming it may be. Now nearly 90 years old, Yamada is proving to be as nimble with domestic dramatics and physical pratfalls as he was during his Tora-san years. ![]() After weathering divorce demands from his wife, losing his beloved driver’s license and coming face to face with his own mortality, Japanese director Yoji Yamada’s irascible, curmudgeonly, secretly loving retiree Shuzo Hirata returns for the third and (no promises) final entry in his Tokyo family dramedy series, What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life. ![]()
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