Like Father, Like Son
- Wednesday, June 28, 10:30 p.m. Mal Seh’n Kino
- Sunday, July 1, 7:45 p.m. Mousonturm Saal (with award ceremony)
- Soshite chichi ni naru
そして父になる - Japan 2013, DCP, 120 min, Japanese with German subtitles
- Director & Script: Hirokazu KOREEDA
- Production: Fuji TV Network, Amuse Inc., Gaga Corporation
- Camera: Mikiya TAKIMOTO
- Music: Shin YASUI
- Sales: Film Kino Text
- Actors: Masaharu FUKUYAMA, Machiko ONO, Keita NINOMIYA, Lily Franky, Yoko MAKI
soshitechichininaru.gaga.ne.jp
A couple finds out that their 6-year-old child is not their biological son and has to decide whether to keep him or take back their biological son. The Cannes jury prize and San Sebastián audience award winner is one of the most complex, beautiful and gut-wrenching family dramas Japan has produced in recent years.
Directory biography
Hirokazu KOREEDA, born in 1962 in Tokyo prefecture, is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He studied literature at Waseda University until 1987, and subsequently directed documentaries for television. He switched to feature film directing in 1995 and has since won several international prizes, including awards in Cannes, Venice and San Sebastián.
Filmography
1995 Maborosi (Maboroshi no hikari); 2004 Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai); 2008 Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo / NC ’09); 2009 Air Doll (Kuki ningyo); 2011 I Wish (Kiseki)