Film Screening:

Like Father, Like Son

(Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013, 121 min, Japan, in Japanese w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) is a successful Tokyo architect who works long hours to provide for his wife, Midori (Machiko Ono) and six-year-old son, Keita. But when a blood test reveals Keita and another baby were switched at birth, two very different families are thrown together and forced to make a difficult decision while Ryota confronts his own issues of responsibility and what it means to be a father. Like Father, Like Son extends the Japanese cinema tradition of familial exploration to deliver a gentle and moving story of personal redemption that playfully navigates its way through the drama.

" What stays with you ... is the unlikely shadow of loss, not least in the hearts of the boys' mothers: how can a loving child, even the 'wrong' one, be let go?"-- Antony Lane, New Yorker 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program(AMES).