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Monster (Kaibutsu)

2h 7m Drama, Mystery 2023
NZIFF2023

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns home with his first Japanese film since the Palm d’Or-winning “Shoplifters” (2018) with this intricate, affecting childhood drama that unravels its mystery from multiple perspectives.

Typically gratifying and immersive in the details specific to the culture and environment, this one won the ‘Queer Palm’ at Cannes, though its sexuality is implicit through young folk not yet fully understanding of their own feelings and behaviours. From this uncertainty emerges an intricate, rewarding tale of a parent, a teacher and a student who are all grappling with their own versions of the truth.

“This absorbing, ambiguously titled movie builds to a moving finish, one that reaffirms Kore-eda’s peerless skill at directing young actors in particular.” ~Justin Chang, LA Times

“A minutely observed, profoundly compassionate chronicle of untidy contemporary lives.” ~Nicholas Barber, BBC

Languages

Japanese, English

Country

Japan

Studio

Madman

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