‘Under the Open Sky’ Review: Yakusho Kōji Is a Wayward Yakuza in a Warm Character Study That Loses Its Way
TIFF: Nishikawa Miwa’s sensitive but overlong character study follows an aging ex-Yakuza as he tries to reintegrate into polite society.
TIFF: Nishikawa Miwa’s sensitive but overlong character study follows an aging ex-Yakuza as he tries to reintegrate into polite society.
A harsh and largely unwelcome change of pace from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan’s greatest living humanist filmmaker.