Like Father, Like Son | そして父となる J-Film

Drama

Presented by JICC, Embassy of Japan and the Japan Commerce Association of Washington DC


Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to the big screen with 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... The moving story of a man who finally faces himself when he encounters an unexpected wall for the first time in his life.

Starring Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki, and Lily Franky.

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