BOFA @ The Barn
Film Festival:
Like Father Like Son

Like Father, Like Son | Drama | Japan | 130mins | Rating: M | Ryota is a successful architect who works long hours to provide for his wife, Midori and their six-year-old son, Keita. One day he receives an unexpected phone call from the hospital - their son is not theirs at all and their biological child was switched at birth. With a deft touch, master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda poses the difficult moral question: would you choose to keep your natural son or the child you have always believed was yours? Like Father, Like Son extends the Japanese cinematic tradition of familial exploration to deliver a gentle and moving story of the resilience of the family bond and the power of personal redemption.