Nature and Nurture: Three Films By Naomi Kawase

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Nature and Nurture: Three Films By Naomi Kawase

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Available for the first time ever on Blu-Ray in North America, Film Movement presents 3 films by Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase.

TRUE MOTHERS

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family.

RADIANCE

Misako (Ayame Misaki) is a passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they learn to see the radiant world that had been invisible to her eyes.

STILL THE WATER

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, sixteen-year-old Kaito (Nijiro Murakami) discovers a young woman’s body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko (Jun Yoshinaga) attempts to help him make sense of this mystery while also coming to terms with her shaman mother’s terminal illness. Together, they broach adulthood by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

Details

Director(s): Naomi Kawase

Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Arata Iura, Aju Makita, Reo Sato, Ayame Misaki, Masatoshi Nagase, Tatsuya Fuji, Nijirô Murakami, Junko Abe, Junko Abe, Tetta Sugimoto

Release Year: 2020, 2017

Runtime: 383 min (combined)

Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1, 2.39:1, 2.35:1

Language(s): JPN- Japanese

Sound: DTS-HD MA 2.0, DTS-HD MA 5.1

Subtitles: English

Format: Blu-ray

Disc Info: 2-disc Region A Blu-ray

Packaging Artist(s): Adam Maida

Genre: Drama

SKU: FM-019 SLIP

Bonus Content

Bonus feature: Actress Juliette Binoche and filmmaker Naomi Kawase discuss True Mothers

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Label Bio

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.