Blossoming Into a Family

January. 21,2017      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

“I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. In 1980, Izumi works at a bank and she lives with her mother Ito. Twenty-two years later, in the evening on a winter night and the day before Izumi is to marry, her mother tells Izumi about her late father's dream, Seishiro. Her father's dream was of Izumi's marriage. Izumi reminisces about her loving father. What happened in the meantime? In reversed chronological order this movie tells a story about a man who had much to give and what he got in return.

Miho Nakanishi as  Kaede Ishikawa
Hitomi Sato as  Izumi Ishikawa
Mantaro Koichi as  Seishiro Ishikawa
Yousuke Saito as  Ishikawa family head
Katsuya Kobayashi as  Toru Kibe
Takehiro Murata as  Doctor Shimada
Yumiko Fujita as  Wife of Ishikawa family head
Yoshiko Miyazaki as  Ito Ishikawa

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Reviews

Cubussoli
2017/01/21

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Fairaher
2017/01/22

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Haven Kaycee
2017/01/23

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

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Billy Ollie
2017/01/24

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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