OUR LITTLE SISTER

By Hirokazu KORE-EDA

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Drama - Completed 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...

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2015
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 128 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hirokazu KORE-EDA
    • Writer(s)
    • Hirokazu KORE-EDA
    • 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.