Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not ‘their’ son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby.

He and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Long synopsis : Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of “Nobody Knows”, “Still Walking” and “I Wish”, returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born… What stays with you, however, 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? In Japanese.Short synopsis : Two families are forced to choose between nature and nurture – between their natural sons and the sons they have raised. The families belong to different social strata, one being poorer but more rumbustious than the other, all of which leads to strains of mild social comedy and a definite touch of the schematic. Custom, genetics, and the law all specify that the boys must now be swapped around, and yet their years of upbringing can hardly be undone or ignored.

The maternity hospital mixed up two babies, and, as a result, their real son, Ryusei (Shogun Hwang), has spent his young life in the care of another couple. His latest work lays forth a rare but especially troubling case of damage: Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) and Midori (Machiko Ono) discover that their son, Keita (Keita Ninomiya), age six, is not theirs at all.

In film after film, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has inspected the family unit-the many ways in which it can be added to, subdivided, and cracked.

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