The otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives because of society’s disapproval of their illegitimacy and déclassé family. Edit Translation
- English
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- dansk
- Norsk
- Native Title: 君と行く路
- Also Known As: Kimi to yuku michi
- Screenwriter & Director: Naruse Mikio
- Genres: Drama
Cast & Credits
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![Henry Okawa in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()]( "Henry Okawa in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()")
Henry OkawaAmanuma AsajiMain Role -
![Kiyokawa Tamae in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()]( "Kiyokawa Tamae in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()")
Kiyokawa TamaeMotherSupport Role -
![Fujiwara Kamatari in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()]( "Fujiwara Kamatari in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()")
Fujiwara Kamatari Support Role -
![Tsutsumi Masako in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()]( "Tsutsumi Masako in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()")
Tsutsumi MasakoKure TsukikoSupport Role -
![Saeki Hideo in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()]( "Saeki Hideo in The Road I Travel with You Japanese Movie ()")
Saeki HideoYuji [Asaji's younger brother]Support Role
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Reviews
This review may contain spoilers
If the world is such a romantic place, why are things so difficult for us?
Money or romance? Social position or love? Family or lover? Hope or despair?The Road I Travel with You starts out like a romantic comedy/drama with lilting music driving the conversations. A retired geisha's sons have fallen in love with women above their station. The problem is that their mother has already started matchmaking for them and the young women in their hearts are out of reach due to their families' rejection of them. The young men are not so easily dissuaded when it comes to affairs of the heart. Neither is their mother dissuaded when it comes to their futures and money. What starts out with a hopeful beginning quickly turns dark.
The movie takes place mostly in living rooms with stiff acting and even more stilted dialogue. The film frames and cinematography are not particularly creative or interesting. Overall, this felt like a more clinical version of Romeo and Juliet. The young people are in love and can see nothing past this love. The parents are practical to a fault and want secure financial futures for their children even at the cost of the childrens' happiness. Emotions should have been boiling over, yet everyone remained eerily calm or in the case of the retired geisha completely detached from her sons' reality.
This movie could have been more emotional, more gut wrenching if everyone's feet didn't feel like they were nailed to the floor during scenes and if their emotions reflected the dialogue they spoke. At no point did the young men and women convince me of the depth of their love or despair, making the tragedies that would follow hollow and meaningless to me. I would never try to dissuade anyone from watching this romantic melodrama, but for my experience, this short movie clocking in at 1 hour 9 minutes felt more like 3 hours.
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