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Younger Brother (Japan, 2010)

Director: Yoji Yamada
Year: 2010

Country: Japan

With : Ryo Kase, Yu Aoi, Yuriko Ishida,
Koen Kondo, Sayuri Yoshinaga .

Genre: Drama

I remember when I discovered in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai . I remember being captivated and I knew from that moment that the name had to be necessarily guarantee quality. Now, nine years later, I can vouch for that.

Titles like The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor , Our Mother and the film at hand, speaks for itself. The latter two films also share two of the protagonists (Sayuri Yoshinaga and Koen Kondo, excellent by the way), share many more things. In fact, I have almost everything in common: visual poetry portrayed from the simplicity and manners, narrative dominated by the tempo marking the characters' emotions, sensitivity and humanity absolute extreme delicacy as to the interpretations, and even a pinch sense of humor. It is true that these features predate his last two films, but is in this last stage as they rise to full power.

Yoji Yamada has directed seventy-six films, the first in 1961. It is obvious that this experience has given him an expertise that few authors can boast. The funny thing is that most of his work are forty-eight parts of its film series Otoko wa Tsurai I would say that the longest in the history of film along with the adventures of Wong Fei-Hung that between whistles and flutes have been devoted to some 99 titles.

Turning to Younger Brother , and well above features present, only remains to remark that it is a beautiful but uncomfortable family history, in which the younger brother ( Koen Kondo) of the protagonist (Sayuri Yoshinaga ) is a black sheep, a heavy and a drunk who navigates between the innermost and unbearable. His incorrigible way of being always creates problems for his sister, a widow for some years and by a daughter and a grandmother. But no matter how complicated his brother there, always ends up feeling responsible for it and forgiving.

I do not want to talk about the end of the film, which has a strong emotional weight and worth that you see on your privacy, but be alert that I will not leave you indifferent and that all the time, the director throws you little existential questions but unpretentious, with great humility, which will turn into your heads until finally all content asimiléis projected onto the screen.

One of those works that do a better person when fully understand.

best: all, but if we must choose: the leading actress. Pride.

Worst: not remember which is released in Spain ...

Oscar Sueiro