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Monday, October 12, 2009

This Week in Film: Still Walking

Posted by on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:50 AM

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Brendan Kiley watches Japanese family drama, discovers: Japanese people—They're just like us!

Did you know Japanese people sometimes sit around the dinner table and share an uncomfortable silence? It’s true! It’s not all monsters and scary cell-phone ghosts and yakuza revenge and dripping-wet samurai in stormy bamboo forests, screaming as they charge toward each other, swords drawn, slicing individual raindrops as they go. Sometimes Japanese families just quietly fret about the mental health of their stubborn patriarch—just like families here!

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