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The Asadas!

2020 · 127 min

A gentle, bittersweet family drama that finds warmth and quiet healing amid grief and disaster.

Directed by: Ryota Nakano
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Haru Kuroki

Overview: Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.

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Directed by: Ryota Nakano
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Haru Kuroki

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 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
coming-of-age
memory
healing
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, comedy
Directed by: Ryota Nakano
Written by: Ryota Nakano, Tomoe Kanno
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Haru Kuroki, Masaki Suda, Jun Fubuki, Mitsuru Hirata, Makiko Watanabe, Yukiya Kitamura
Music: Takashi Watanabe
Cinematography: Hironori Yamasaki
Runtime: 127 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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