A Quiet Life
A Quiet Life A Quiet Life Aka: Land: Japan 1995 Release: HK / China Genre: Drama Lz: Bild: Ton: Japanese DD Untertitel: English, Japanese Directed: Juzo Itami Starring: Atsuro Watabe Choei Takahashi Hinako Saeki Hiroshi Yagyu Hisako Hara Masayuki Imai Mihoko Shibata Noboru Mitani Nobuko Miyamoto Nobuto Okamoto Rie Shibata Satomi Achiwa Shinobu Kawamata Tamaki Ogawa Tokie Hidari Tsutomu Yamazaki Produced: Extras: Publisher: Geneon Regioncode: All
Aka:
Land: Japan 1995
Release: HK / China
Genre: Drama
Lz:
Bild:
Ton: Japanese DD
Untertitel: English, Japanese
Directed: Juzo Itami
Starring: Atsuro Watabe Choei Takahashi Hinako Saeki Hiroshi Yagyu Hisako Hara Masayuki Imai Mihoko Shibata Noboru Mitani Nobuko Miyamoto Nobuto Okamoto Rie Shibata Satomi Achiwa Shinobu Kawamata Tamaki Ogawa Tokie Hidari Tsutomu Yamazaki
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Publisher: Geneon
Regioncode: All
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Synopsis
Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize in Literature (1994) winner Kenzaburô Oe. The story revolves around the experiences of Iiyo, a mentally handicapped adolescent boy and his younger sister Maa as she cares for him in their parents' absence. The characters and story are loosely based on Oe's own handicapped son, and both father and son reflect on the movie adaptation in a very interesting interview. The movie was nominated for and won four Japanese Academy Awards. The story deals directly with the unique difficulties faced by the handicapped and by their loved ones. Maa faces the difficulty of overcoming suspicions that Iiyo may somehow be inclined to harm children (which he isn't) and of locating someone of good character to help them (which she doesn't). Iiyo's difficulties include undergoing the humiliation of seizures in public and the sudden summoning of strength to aid his sister in the moment she needs him the most. The story is rather powerful in its own right, and certainly when accompanied with the mini-documentary of Oe and his son, in which Oe tries to imply that most of the movie, including Iiyo's courageous actions in rescuing his sister, are based on real life events.