Shohei is now retired from his job as a middle school principal. On his 70th birthday, he tells his wife Yoko, first daughter Mari and second daughter Fumi that he has Alzheimer's disease. First daughter Mari is a housewife with a husband and a child. Second daughter Fum is still single and she agonizes over her life. The three women are embarrassed for Shohei who is losing his memory. One day, Fumi, Mari and Yoko realize that Shohei still holds onto fond memories which they have already forgotten. Edit Translation
- English
- 한국어
- 中文(台灣)
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- Native Title: 長いお別れ
- Also Known As: Nagai Owakare , The Long Goodbye , Nagaiowakare
- Screenwriter & Director: Nakano Ryota
- Genres: Life, Drama, Family
Cast & Credits
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![Yamazaki Tsutomu in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Yamazaki Tsutomu in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Yamazaki Tsutomu Main Role -
![Matsubara Chieko in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Matsubara Chieko in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Matsubara Chieko Main Role -
![Takeuchi Yuko in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Takeuchi Yuko in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Takeuchi Yuko Main Role -
![Aoi Yu in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Aoi Yu in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Aoi Yu Main Role -
![Nakamura Tomoya in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Nakamura Tomoya in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Nakamura TomoyaMichihikoSupport Role -
![Kitamura Yukiya in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)]( "Kitamura Yukiya in A Long Goodbye Japanese Movie (2019)")
Kitamura YukiyaArataSupport Role
Reviews
A heartwarming story about the difficulties a family can face with time.
This is a story about a family whose father/husband is a man with Alzheimer's and his slowly deteriorating mental capacity as the years progress. How his family deals with the knowledge and how they learn to adapt and grow as a family throughout the hardships that entail. Overall, the family bonds, the consideration turned apathy that returns to consideration again -- all these little things were delivered relatively well.However, I do have qualms about certain aspects. The stiff and unnatural acting from some actors, the dissociation the structuring of the movie makes the viewers feel that could've easily been fixed with a simple floating subtitle that mentions the current date during flashbacks, the lack of any noteworthy OSTs and usual lack of post-production quality of majority Japanese works; high frames but lower quality and a severe lack of post-production.
Given these things, it was hard to rate this accurate but as far as I'm concerned I didn't necessarily regret watching this, and it was rather heartwarming too at times, hence a 7 star rating seems fair.
P.s. I see there are no reviews here -- I mean, no oppas in this movie after all, lol.
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