The film belongs to the auteur’s Proletariat series, which already includes Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1990).
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Like Rashomon, several of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films use different perspectives to get to one truth. In Monster, a boy (Soya Kurokawa) complaints that a teacher has struck him and bullied him, and his mother (Sakura Ando) presses for answers, which are not readily easy to find. Ando is outstanding, as is Hinata Hiiragi as the […]