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Backwater

2013 · 102 min

A slow, oppressive immersion into inherited violence and shame, hard to shake and harder to enjoy.

Directed by
Shinji Aoyama
Genres
Drama
Starring
Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara
Overview
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.

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Directed by
Shinji Aoyama
Genres
Drama
Starring
Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • trauma
  • identity
  • violence
  • guilt
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Shinji Aoyama
Written by
Haruhiko Arai
Starring
Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Yasushi Fuchikami, Kyoko Shishikura
Music
Isao Yamada
Cinematography
Takahiro Imai
Runtime
102 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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