Ashura No Gotoku

Yoshimitsu Morita's comedy drama Ashura No Gotoku (Like Ashura) tells the story of what happens to four sisters when they discover a secret their father has been keeping. The film opens with third sister Takiko (Eri Fukatsu) revealing to the others that dad has been having an affair that has ...more

A departure from the daring of Yoshimitsu Morita's earlier work, Like Asura shows the veteran director (The Family Game) working in a much more reserved, traditional mode. Like Asura is essentially a well-made melodrama, with occasional comic insight into sibling and romantic relationships. Morita and cinematographer Nobuyasu Kita fill the screen with exquisite compositions, often in long shot, and the cast deliver uniformly restrained and excellent performances, with the exception of Japanese ...more