Backwater 2013
Backwater 2013
Tomogui (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Drama | 7 September 2013 (Japan)
Storyline:
Cannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive dad. Will the sins of the father carry on to the next generation in the bloodline?
User review:
With Tomogui, Shinji Aoyama misses again with a potentially interesting Zola-esque tale of the propensity of violence to be passed down from father to son. Set in a backwater town in the late 80s, we’re introduced to teen-aged Toma (Masaki Suda) returning to his father’s (Ken Mitsuishi) home. Here he sees dissipated dad abusing his current lover (Yukiko Shinohara). Mom, now divorced, having only one hand and owning a fish shop (where nobody seems to go), offers worldly advice to young Toma. In the meantime, Toma’s got a brand new girl, sweet Chikusa (Misaki Kinoshita). Tomogui starts off well enough, with a cast of strong character actors, but soon begins a decline of predictability end ever-escalating histrionics that culminates in a laughable scene of Mom getting revenge on her ex after he rapes Chikusa – that is after she’s been abused by Toma. Aoyama does add a coda that cynically, and I must admit humorously, inflates a bit of all this genetically predisposed nonsense. But I don’t think that humor was what he was after.
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Writers: Shin’ya Tanaka (based on the novel by), Haruhiko Arai (screenplay)
Stars: Masaki Suda, Ken Mitsuishi, Yukiko Shinohara
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 7 September 2013 (Japan)
Also Known As: Backwater
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 1.88 GiB
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Overall bit rate : 2 638 kb/s
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