"Ototo" directed by Yoji Yamada

"Ototo," the latest Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada who also created "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" series, "Twilight Samurai," and more brilliant films comes out on DVD & Blu-ray at on August 4!

This movie is an homage to the same-titled film previously directed by Kon Ichikawa and won the Bernale Camera Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Stars Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tsurube Shofukutei, Yu Aoi, and Ryo Kase.

Plot: Ginko is a widow who humbly lives in Tokyo with her mother-in-law Kinuyo and daughter Koharu. Ginko's family is on the pinnacle of happiness on Koharu's upcoming wedding with an elite doctor. However, on Koharu's wedding day, her trouble-making younger brother named Tetsuro appears to celebrate them. . .

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