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Her Love Boils Bathwater

2016 · 125 min

A tender, quietly devastating family drama that finds warmth and small victories inside impending loss, leaving you tearful but oddly hopeful.

Directed by
Ryota Nakano
Genres
Drama
Starring
Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Joe Odagiri
Overview
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.

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Directed by
Ryota Nakano
Genres
Drama
Starring
Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Joe Odagiri
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • parenthood
  • healing
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
Takashi Watanabe
Cinematography
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi
Runtime
125 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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