Tag Archives: family relationship

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.

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

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

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Secrets and Lies

Title: Secrets and Lies

Date: 1996

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family demographics, family relationship

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer’s business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn’t even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

Places to view: Only available for purchase

Contributor: Anonymous