Movie

License to Live

1999 · 110 min

A quiet, disorienting drift through a life that no longer fits, mixing gentle absurdity with a lingering sense of loss.

Tagline: Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?
Overview: Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, warm and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, family, isolation, identity
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
absurdstrength 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: memory
family
isolation
identity
grief
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild