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Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in the city of Kamakura, Japan. When their father, absent from the family home for the last fifteen years, dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy, teenage half sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.
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Our Little Sister 2015
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After the Storm 2016
I came to After the Storm after having seen Shoplifters in the run up to the Oscars where it had a Best Foreign Film nomination against the juggernaut of Roma. I am now trying to watch a film from Director Hirokazu Kore-eda for each week in March. I am so taken with him and his humanist storytelling. I appreciate his work in the way I would savour the novels of Steinbeck or Dickens. I am reminded of a time years…
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Eight Men Out 1988
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"Say it ain't so Joe. Say it ain't so" --- As a fan of both baseball and John Sayles I found this to be a very good movie. The presentation of the game of baseball as it was in 1919 was compelling. The acting performances from a strong cast were top notch...the baseball sequences were well done. Sayles knew his stuff.
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Trouble with the Curve 2012
Amy Adams "Tell me why you left me". Eastwood "I didn't want you to have life in the cheap seats. That's all" Adams: "Those weren't the cheap seats. Spending every waking moment with my dad watching baseball, those were the best seats in the house" --- For a baseball fan this is the anti-Moneyball movie. This film came out one year after Moneyball succeeded in wonderfully presenting baseball's new love of analytics. The Trouble with the Curve captures the old…
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