Kiseki (2011)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 128 minuten
Alternative titles: I Wish / 奇跡
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Stars: Ohshirô Maeda, Kôki Maeda and Nene Ohtsuka
IMDb score:
7,4 (8.474)
Releasedate: 11 June 2011
Kiseki plot
"They wished for a miracle."
After their parents divorce, Koichi ends up with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, while his brother Ryunosuke now lives with his father in Fukuoka. The brothers dream that their parents will reunite and be reunited. When they hear that the Kyushu Shinkansen train connection has been completed, they are blown away by a persistent legend about it. This one says that a miracle is going to happen when the first two trains meet on the track. Koichi and Ryunosuke have a miracle in mind and will do everything they can to see it come true.
Actors and actresses
Koichi Osako
Ryoonosuke Kinami
Nozomi Osako
Kenji Kinami
Tasuku
Shin Ota
Megumi Ariyoshi
Kanna
Rento
Mimura
Reviews & comments
Ferdydurke
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- 1353 messages
- 854 votes
Koreeda once again balancing on the fine line between sentimentality and 'real' emotion.
That doesn't seem to go well at first. A slightly too high tempo for my taste, and a soundtrack that initially sounds like a dick on a drum kit; but as the film progresses it seems to get into the right rhythm. Or maybe I'm getting used to it.
Koreeda manages to get me again, knows how to move me again, precisely by not letting the drama become melodrama, and not letting the childish degenerate into childishness. The poetic always retains something modest, something realistic.
Ultimately well on the right side of the line, but as far as I'm concerned this is not one of the real high flyers in his oeuvre.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Light, at times touching film about children who try to force a solution for the problems they are confronted with. Hirokazu Koreeda has wrapped that with the necessary humor in a smooth film, which illustrates the contrasts between the thought world and logic of children and adults. Very nice. In my opinion one of the better Koreeda's.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
After recently seeing his latest, La vérité, I am now on my 13th Kore-eda with this I wish. Unfortunately for me one of his lesser films without really calling it bad. More like a quietly meandering film about two brothers who live apart, but want to be together.
A film about dreams and expectations, about aspects of daily life and how children look at them in their unique view of the things in life. A nice starting point, that's for sure, but I found the plot rather long-winded and quite meaningless for quite a long time. After halfway it gets a bit better, but then the calf had already drowned for me (although I don't mean it that negatively). The experiences of a child expressed from a dreamy fantasy come to life here, but they touched me a bit too little (although the subject lent itself to this).
Again beautiful images and a nice insight into Japanese culture. Beautiful atmospheric images of life along a living volcano supported by calm music. Solid, but it could have been a bit more.
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