The Mamiya Brothers

Yoshimitsu Morita
Part of

Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective

December 2 - 11, 2022

A charming, tender comedy that recalls Morita’s earliest narrative features, The Mamiya Brothers follows two siblings who live together and have created an entire world unto themselves—a world that changes radically when the elder brother falls for a video rental store clerk.

DIRECTOR
Yoshimitsu Morita
YEAR
2006
COUNTRY
Japan
RUNTIME
119 minutes
LANGUAGE
Japanese with English subtitles
START DATE
December 11, 2022

A charming, tender comedy that recalls Morita’s earliest narrative features, The Mamiya Brothers follows two siblings, the elder Akinobu (Kuranosuke Sasaki) and the younger Tetsunobu (Muga Tsukaji), 30-somethings who live together and have created an entire world unto themselves. But the comforts of routine and each other’s company do little to compensate for a glaring absence: any love life whatsoever for either. When Akinobu falls for a clerk at a video rental shop, Tetsunobu takes it upon himself to help his brother in his quest for romance, but of course, the best laid plans… A touching late career work, The Mamiya Brothers attests to the staggering scope of Morita’s filmic artistry.

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