Yet there is no climactic storminess in the action.
After the Storm is a family drama, a 21st-century variation on the classic Japanese style of which this film-maker is now the international standard-bearer. Yet After the Storm comes with the most extraordinary subplot, that in other circumstances could make a brutally hardboiled noir thriller. He is Shinoda Hiroshi Abe , who has come home to be with his elderly mother because his father — a man whose reckless, spendthrift ways Shinoda has clearly inherited — has just died.
Poor Shinoda still carries a torch for his ex-wife and uses his gumshoe skills to spy on her and her new partner. He is in denial about the way his writing ambitions are panning out. Some time ago, he had a successful debut with a novel called The Empty Table — a title replete with autobiographical sadness.
But the awful truth is that his literary career is stalling and that he has no choice but to carry on being a private detective because that is the only thing bringing in what little money he has. That grubby world, at first so fascinating as something to be transformed and exalted into literature, is the professional life into which he has sunk.
In the hands of another film-maker, this situation might be the focus of a queasy black comedy.
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Intriguingly, Kore-eda simply passes over events that in a noir would get Shinoda roughed up or killed. Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group.
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