I’d heard amazing things about Yanagimachi’s work for a while but wasn’t expecting this to instantly jump into the all time feel bad movie hall of fame. The opening scene where yukio’s sons are the ones to unbind him from a post after his tantrum at dinner of course sets up the main theme for the rest of the movie, which documents his drug usage/addiction, economic failings and his new doomed marriage following their accidental deaths. The establishing shot compositions…
