Love and the Grand Tug-of-war

October. 30,2020      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.

Takahiro Miura as  Takeshi
Kang Ji-young as  Yeo Ji-hyun
Manami Higa as  
Ikki Sawamura as  
Mako Ishino as  
Mayumi Asaka as  
Takeshi Masu as  

Reviews

Scanialara
2020/10/30

You won't be disappointed!

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Pluskylang
2020/10/31

Great Film overall

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Jonah Abbott
2020/11/01

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Kaydan Christian
2020/11/02

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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