(NR) Japan – 2 hr 5 min
1993 · d. Shinji Sômai – with subtitles
Starring Tabata Tomoko, Junko Sakurada, Kiichi Nakai
Struggling to cope with her parents’ messy separation, 11-year-old Renko—one of cinema’s great child characters—stages a campaign to reunite her family. Taking its coming-of-age story into unconventional and even transcendental territory, Moving is a key work by a major Japanese filmmaker woefully underappreciated in the West.
