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Tamako is a popular fortune teller who lives with her adult son, Tadao, due to his intellectual disability and autism. While he does spend time at a workshop designed to help him develop the ability to live independently, neighbours still complain about his unpredictable behaviour. When Tamako is informed that a room is available in a group home owned by the workshop, she decides that this is Tadao’s best option. However, moving out is not easy for Tadao. (Source: genkinahito.wordpress.com) ~~ Release dates: Jun 11, 2021 (Festival) || Nov 12, 2021 (Cinema) Edit Translation

  • English
  • 中文(台灣)
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • עברית / עִבְרִית
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Jun 11, 2021
  • Duration: 1 hr. 17 min.
  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 76 users)
  • Ranked: #19760
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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Elisheva
6 people found this review helpful
Jun 6, 2024
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

Acceptance of difference and problems caused by those quick to judge

Cho-san has both learning disabilities and autism, needs his routines and works in a supported facility. He also has a great mum and difficult neighbours.

Every bit of this rings true with my experience working and volunteering with people with learning disabilities, including the complicated decisions aging parents make to ensure their sons and daughters are settled.

Please don't watch this to be heart-warmed. Please watch this to better understand a bit more of the extra difficulties so unnecessarily created by those who see difference and look for reasons to condemn.

(The tags currently include mental illness. There is no mental illness depicted in this film. The distress felt by Cho-san and some of the housemates when confronted by loud noises, angry neighbours or disruption to their routine is part of their learning disabilities, not mental illness. These are distinct things.)

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Saeng
1 people found this review helpful
Jun 13, 2024
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
The film shows us the story of an elderly woman and her autistic son, Chu-san (He's legally named Tadao, yes, but he only goes by Chu-san) and their struggles with their neighbours.

It's never sentimental about it; there's no pathos at all. It just shows the people as the are. It also never tries to explain what people are thinking or feeling, why they act the way they do -- which is especially exceptional for Chu-san. I can imagine that a lesser film would try to explain him to the "normal" people (i.e. the ausidence), either directly or through the mouth of a character.
This film does neither. It shows us how Chu-san lives his life, what is important to him and where he clashes with the world, who shows no sympathy for him at all; with the exception of the son of the neighbour family.

Following the way the story is told -- unsentimental, but with great sympathy -- the acting and editing stays natural and even understated throughout.


If you can watch this film, then I recommend you to do so!

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  • Movie: The Lone Ume Tree
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Jun 11, 2021
  • Duration: 1 hr. 17 min.
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 76 users)
  • Ranked: #19760
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Watchers: 125

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