Theatrical trailer for Like Father, Like Son.
The "switched at birth" urban legend and the Nature vs. Nurture debate provide Hirokazu Kore-eda with a fresh opportunity to revisit his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan. The life of go-getting workaholic architect Ryota—one of comfort and quietly ordered affluence with his wife Midori and son Keita—is violently overturned when hospital administrators reveal the unthinkable: Keita is not his biological son. Due to a switch at the hospital, his "true" son has been raised in the disheveled but warm-hearted home of working-class shopkeeper Yudai and his wife. The different approaches of both couples to their excruciating dilemma and the gradual emotional awakening of the all-too-rational Ryota are at the core of this sensitive drama of family feeling, which showcases Kore-eda's rich sense of humanity.
2 min 3 sec
Views
41,400
Posted On
December 27, 2013
Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer
Hirokazu Koreeda
Studio
IFC Films
Release
January 17, 2014
Masaharu Fukuyama
Machiko Ono
Yôko Maki
Lily Franky
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