Sad Vacation (2007)
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59% of users liked it
(373 ratings)
A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically acclaimed 2000 drama Eureka. When Kenji was just a young boy, his mother abandoned the family and his father… More A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically acclaimed 2000 drama Eureka. When Kenji was just a young boy, his mother abandoned the family and his father committed suicide. These days Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) can't seem to hold down a regular job, instead choosing to work part time as a designated driver for tipsy bar hostesses and their randy clients. Occasionally, he even assists local gangsters in trafficking illegal immigrants. Everything changes for Kenji, however, when in just a matter of days he meets both the woman who will bear his future child as well as his own long-missing mother Chiyoko (Eri Ishida). Now, as Kenji ponders the depressive realization that his mother left he and his father behind in favor of starting a new family, the past and the future come crashing together, forcing the uncertain drifter to try and make sense of his own fractured existence. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Shinji Aoyama
- Written By
- Shinji Aoyama
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 31, 2007 Wide
- Studio
- Sponge
Critic Reviews
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Jay Weissberg, Variety
Only those already won over by recent Shinji Aoyama will coddle to Sad Vacation, the prolific helmer's latest overlong, confused meditation on family and abandonment.
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Keith Uhlich, UGO
There's something willfully obscurantist about Sad Vacation, as if it is, first and foremost, a private joke between writer/director Shinji Aoyama and his performers.
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Cast
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Tadanobu Asano
as Kenji
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Eri Ishida
as Chiyoko
- Aoi Miyazaki
- Jô Odagiri
- Yuka Itaya
- Ken Mitsuishi
