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Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Still Walking

Title: Still Walking

Date: 2008

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Keywords: stress and coping, family relationship, family functioning, adulthood, parent-child relationships, various family structures

Rating: NA

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Families

Language: Japanese

Film/Episode Summary: Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother’s homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Family Law and Policies, Family Resource Management, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Like Father, Like Son

Title: Like Father, Like Son

Date: 2013

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Family Resource Management, Family Law and Policies, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Parenting

Keywords: response to crises, decision-making, legal conflict, professional responsibilities, dilemmas, parent-child relationships, parenting styles, types of parent

Rating: NA

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Families

Language: Japanese

Film/Episode Summary: Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of “Nobody Knows”, “Still Walking” and “I Wish”, returns to the big screen with another family – a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born… Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not ‘their’ son – the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture.’ Seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a ‘father’ all these years….

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Contributor: Anonymous

Family Law and Policies, Internal Dynamics of Families

I Wish

Title: I Wish

Date: 2011

Media type: Film

Category: Family Law and Policies, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: specific family legal issues, family relationship

Rating: PG

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Families

Language: Japanese

Film/Episode Summary: Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents’ divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes

Contributor: Anonymous