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</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4511" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4513" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Below is a short take on <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4515">Our Little Sister</i> / <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4517">Umimachi Diary</i> and is an
entirely optional read.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4631" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4513" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4519" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4521" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Following
from its audience prize at San Sebastian and <a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4523" href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/13/my-little-sister-review-hirokazu-kore-eda-cannes-2015">warm
reviews at Venice</a>, I caught up with Koreeda’s <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4525">Our Little Sister</i> at
the London Film Festival.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4527" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4529" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The audience,
paying about £13 (c.$20) a ticket, were chuckling along, almost from the
off.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4531" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There were however, a couple of
circumstances that slightly detached me from the film.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4533" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One was that many of the subtitles appeared
early so that I was hearing laughter before the line was delivered.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4535" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The other was that I had just spent a journey
reading NAKAGAMI Kenji’s <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4537">The Cape</i>. Both stories circle around
relationships to an absent and now dead father by multiple half-siblings of
different mothers.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4539" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But in style they
couldn’t be farther apart..<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4541" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The more I
read <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4543">The Cape,</i> the more I admired it but couldn’t imagine a film adaptation
that I wouldn’t viscerally reject.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4545" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
more I watched the beautiful lives in <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4547">Our Little Sister</i>, the more I
thought I should make a greater effort to appreciate films like <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4549">Millennial
Rapture</i> (WAKAMATSU) and <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4551">The Egoists</i> (HIROKI Ryūichi), and get past
their unlikeable characters.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4644" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4529" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4553" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4555" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everyone left
happily as the end-credits (entirely in english) rolled.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4557" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I stayed to catch the translation credit
(Linda Hoaglund).<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4559" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All that were left
were the three next to me who had been so wrapped up the film that they had entirely
forgotten to eat their popcorn.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4561" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I should
be grateful for that.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4563" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So it was time for
my - er, statistically robust - audience survey.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4565" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“So, come on what was so funny about “I’ll
take a bath first.” ? “<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4567" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“It was just the
way they argued.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4569" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I love Koreeda films.”</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4656" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4555" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4571" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4573" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’d like to
mention two scenes from <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4575">Our Little Sister</i> to show what I liked and what
I didn’t like.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4577" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Both are near the end and
both have only the eldest and youngest sisters.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4579" style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In the first scene the two sisters climb a hill near Kamakura to watch
the view which their father remembered in Yamagata-ken.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4581" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The two sisters embrace.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4583" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We get a close-up of one beautiful face
emoting and then reverse to get the other beautiful sister emoting.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4585" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Both viewpoints would be from off the ground
of the hill-top.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4587" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It jammed into me not
just that it was ‘<a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4589" href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/21/hirokazu-kore-director-our-little-sister-interview">not
Ozu</a>’ that we were watching a manga adaptation for Fuji-tv.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4591" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4593" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A scene I
admired was inside their house.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4595" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The shot
is continuous, taking in the room and the garden.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4597" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Younger sister is making a plum wine
cocktail.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4599" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The first question is, ‘Do you
want it sweet or bitter?’.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4601" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>An off-screen
voice says ‘Bitter’. The second question was ‘Strong or weak?’<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4603" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>‘Strong’.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4605" style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Younger sister also makes a sweet weak drink for herself.<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4607" style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The composition of little things was held.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4609" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4611" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’d like to
imagine, on no evidence (I haven’t seen the manga by YOSHIDA Akimi), that
Koreeda is telling us that he has to make sweet films along with the strong,
and that we should be patient.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4658" class=""><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444847462873_4611" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></div>
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