Summer for the Living

August. 27,2011      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A humanistic drama about an encounter in the life of a woman around the age of 40, set during the Obon season when the living take time to reflect on the dead. Director Fukuma Kenji is also a poet and a university professor. Chikage (Yoshino Akira) is reunited with Shohei (Suzuki Tsunekichi), a man she once lived together with, and his daughter Saki (Kohara Saori). After several twists and turns, Chikage and Shohei come to share the same roof again, but Saki is unable to accept it. Then one year later during Obon, relations eventually thaw between Chikage and Saki.

Tsunekichi Suzuki as  Shohei

Reviews

Cubussoli
2011/08/27

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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AniInterview
2011/08/28

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Bergorks
2011/08/29

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Darin
2011/08/30

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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