16/36
Story
Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run the Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi
When Tatsuo discovers that he is ill, he fears that his daughter will be alone and, unbeknownst to her, sets out to find a match for Haru. While the plot could (and has) filled in a lot of family drama, here, with the magnetic presence of veteran actor Tatsuya Fuji (Empire of the Senses), the…
Director/writer Mitsuhiro Mihara’s 2023 plaintive father-daughter drama is a bit too run-of-the-mill to compare favorably to the classic family dramas of Yasujiro Ozu
Read more. In a story centered on Tatsuo, an elderly tofu master from Onomichi, and his singularly devoted daughter Haru, Mihara is clearly channeling Ozu’s “late spring” and “early summer” in capturing the specificity of their close relationship.
The clown moments felt like a different film than it was intended
The plot moves slowly as everyone eventually finds potential mates, but not before a requisite number of comedic scenes with stock characters are played out fairly broadly. Regardless, screen veteran Tatsuya Fuji plays Tatsuo with surly elan, while Kumiko Aso provides attentive assistance as Haru.
For a film with similar sensibilities about the art behind uniquely Japanese food, I suggest checking out Naomi Kawase’s 2015 “An (Sweet Bean)”
Fuji’s scenes with Kumi Nakamura as a sickly elderly woman were touching, though the atomic bomb connections felt forced to cram more pathos into the film.
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