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OUR LITTLE SISTER

UMIMACHI DIARY

By Hirokazu KORE-EDA

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Drama - Post-Production 2014

When three young women invite their shy teenage half-sister to live with them, a new life of joyful discovery begins for all four siblings...

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Director(s)
- Hirokazu KORE-EDA
- Writer(s)
- Hirokazu KORE-EDA
- Cast
- Haruka AYASE, Masami NAGASAWA, KAHO, Suzu HIROSE
- Producer(s)
- Matsuzaki KAORU, Taguchi HIJIRI
- Synopsis
- Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...
  
  After Like Father, Like Son (Jury Prize, Cannes FF) and Nobody Knows (Best Actor Prize, Cannes FF) Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with another sensitive and poetic tale of love and family ties.